So SMARTECH, company that hosts gwb43.com (owned by RNC), ALSO hosted the OHIO ELECTION RETURNS???

[jackstraw45]

Just making sure before my head explodes:


1. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/11/7/144314/082
Ohio website for live Election Night Dashboard moves from State of Ohio to
SMARTechcorp.net IP address managed by the Republican National Committee

AND


2. From betterwhois.com:

AboutUs: GWB43.COM


Registrant:
Republican National Committee
310 First Street SE
Washington, DC 20003
US

Domain Name: GWB43.COM

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Republican National Committee [e-mail]
310 First Street SE
Washington, DC 20003
US
999 999 9999 fax: [phone]


Record expires on 16-Jan-2008.
Record created on 16-Jan-2004.
Database last updated on 21-Mar-2007 17:45:46 EDT.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS1.CHA.SMARTECHCORP.NET
A.NS.TRESPASSERS-W.NET


AND


3. Look who was hosting the OHIO election result site on NOVEMBER 3, 2004:

Windows 2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 3-Nov-2004 64.203.98.137 SMARTECH CORPORATION

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=election.sos.state.oh.us

[SpiralHawk]

1. Ka-powee!! republicon rot to the core.

corrupt republicon cronies stealing America from Americans.



Why do republicons hate America?

Why do republicons hate America?

Why do republicons hate America?

Why do republicons hate America?

[L. Coyote]

142. WAS THE FIX IN before this? Kerry-Bush vote-switch found in probability study

OHIO 2004: 6.15% Kerry-Bush vote-switch found in probability study
Jan-28-07 DU Discussion: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x259620

Defining the vote outcome probabilities of wrong-precinct voting has revealed, in a sample of 166,953 votes (1/34th of the Ohio vote), the Kerry-Bush margin changes 6.15% when the population is sorted by probable outcomes of wrong-precinct voting.

The Kerry to Bush 6.15% vote-switch differential is seen when the large sample is sorted by probability a Kerry wrong-precinct vote counts for Bush. When the same large voter sample is sorted by the probability Kerry votes count for third-party candidates, Kerry votes are instead equal in both subsets.

Read the article:

The 2004 Ohio Presidential Election: Cuyahoga County Analysis
How Kerry Votes Were Switched to Bush Votes

http://jqjacobs.net/politics/ohio.html

[MagickMuffin]

2. Links?!?

This Should BE Huge.....

Oh and K&R

[threadkillaz]

134. Some other sites hosted by SmartTech

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/hosted?netname=SMARTECHCORPNET,64.203.96.0,64.203.111.255

gop.com
rnc.org (http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.rnc.org)
georgebush.com
bushenergy.com
gopteamleader.com
republicanvictoryteam.com
rnchq.org
johnmccain.com
speakergingrich.com

[Greyskye]

3. There are only just so many coincidences...

...that you can take before you start to feel like you're in the middle of a Phillip K. Dick novel! :wtf:

[annabanana]

4. Whoa there!. . . . . . That's very interesting....

Is this as damning as it looks? Or is my computer illiteracy showing? I would love to hear any resident techies respond. .

[L. Coyote]

49. The OHIO server could not handle election night traffic. Cronyism at work.

This is a non-story unless some malfeasance is shown. Blackwell gave the job to a politically allied hosting company. That's cronyism.

The posters going off the deep end thinking this altered the election results are missing the story about how the election resutls were actually altered:

OHIO 2004: 6.15% Kerry-Bush vote-switch found in probability study
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x259620

The election night results reflect the vote-switching. What matters is that votes were switched. Who cares what Internet host posted it online, except those investigating cronyism perhaps.

What matters is votes were switched, and that should be the focus!!!!!!!! JEEEZZZZZ

[Botany]

124. Why on earth would the SoS have a server that didn't have the capacity ...

.... to handle the job that is under the SoS's major duties?

[WinkyDink]

132. Wouldn't it matter if it's the RNC that's involved?

[tandot]

5. Linky?

K & R

[SoCalDem]

6. Keep peeling that stinky onion..

The real problem, is that this corruption is SO BIG, that most people cannot get their heads around it..

This is the "beauty" of their whole scam.. Make it HUGE (or should I say HUGH?)..make it so multi-leveled and confusing that the average person just says.."that cannot possibly be true"..and gives up.. and when questioned, they just say.. sounds like conspiracy nuts at it again..

Conspiracies DO exist, and when pros "do it", they can be doozies, and go on forever..

[TerdlowSmedley]

7. Fancy that!

[jackstraw45]

8. UPDATED with links....nt

nt

[BadgerKid]

9. Ken Blackwell Outsources Ohio Election Results to GOP Internet Operatives, Again

more at http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/story/2006/11/7/115314/922

SOS Blackwell also neglected to inform that he outsourced Election Night hosting services to the provider of Internet operations for the Republican National Committee, SMARTech Corp. It's clear that most of the IP address space allocated to Smartechcorp, if it has a domain name, is operated by the RNC or its functionaries and allies.

Is there significance to the fact that election.sos.state.oh.us, on Tuesday night, will correspond to the IP address that lies between Karl Rove's Votervault.com and the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC)? Just one arrangement of odd bedfellows in that example click the link to IP Block 64.203.98.xxx for other familiar examples such as Becki Donatelli-client, VetsForFreedom.com, or Ken Mehlman's 72hour.org.. They're all hot items right now with each aimed capture the reader's vote.

Attempting to surf to http://election.sos.state.oh.us will redirect the visitor to http://www.sos.state.oh.us. Following Election Results links leads to http://www.sos.state.oh.us/SOS/ElectionsVoter/results2006.aspx (not the Election Night Dashboard at time of writing). On Tuesday, Nov. 7, databases of name servers should be refreshed to enable websurfers to clicking 'election.sos.state.oh.us' to arrive at http://64.203.98.137//Results/Dashboard.aspx.

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3A64.203.98.137... Ken, it's harder to make stuff disappear on the internets, not as easy as disappearing $10,000 Diebold lobbyist checks...>

Ken Blackwell outsourced the design of the Election Night Project to Mike Connell who is a GOP operative and the principal of New Media Communications and GovTech Solutions. Their association may go back as far as the George H. W. Bush era. Connell's long-established association in the online political, campaign and fundraising arenas, in addition to his technological expertise, made him a shoe-in for government and non-government services where pay-to-play is the standard..

On April 7, 2000, Blackwell certified the woman-owned (Connell's wife, Heather), small business that Mike Connell spunoff of New Media Communications in order to provide government contracting service a 'non-partisan' face. When Blackwell stamped 'approval' on that incorporation, he'd previously approved the merger of DCI Group and NewMedia Communications.

[blogslut]

10. They had the contract to handle all RNC stuff

I had the link to an article on that somewhere around here...

[jackstraw45]

11. RNC payments (over the counter) to Smartech by election cycle:

2004:

http://www.crp.org/parties/expenddetail.asp?txtName=SMARTECH+CORPORATION&Cmte=RPC&cycle=2004

2006:

http://www.crp.org/parties/expenddetail.asp?txtName=SMARTECH+CORPORATION&Cmte=RPC&cycle=2006

It's nice to host the RNC site, as well as White House political communications servers...

[Skidmore]

12. And Rove's boy, Scott Jennings, had his assistant on that gwb43

address doing what?

[starroute]

13. Some relevant stuff at SourceWatch

This entry is about the "Vets for Freedom" website -- apparently a pro-Bush astroturf group -- but in the course of tying the site to the 2004 Bush campaign, the entry offers a fair amount of information about Smartechcorp in general:

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Vets_for_Freedom:_Website

The web hosting company for the Vets for Freedom website is SMARTECHCORP.NET, which is the Chattanooga, Tennessee-based SMARTech Corp.

Stacy Cowley of IDG News Service reported October 10, 2004, that net surfers "outside the U.S." who were interested in President George W. Bush's re-election strategy weren't "able to learn about it from his campaign Web site. Visitors from a number of international locations reported hitting 'access denied' errors as they tried to reach the site ... Surfers in the U.S. reported no problems."

Cowley reported that the "U.K. analysis firm Netcraft Ltd. said the Bush site appear to be using network management technology from Akamai Technologies Inc. to restrict access. Netcraft monitors Web site response times from several locations, four in the U.S. and three outside." . . .

On August 22, 2004, SMARTech Corp (smartechcorp.net) announced that it would be "hosting" the Republican National Convention in New York City, providing "convention speeches, video-on-demand 'streams' and live shots of events through powerful Web servers, most of which are at Smartech’s headquarters in downtown Chattanooga." The announcement stated that the "company also hosts the Bush-Cheney campaign Web site, at www.georgewbush.com, and the national committee’s site, www.GOP.com."

[mcg]

87. Jeff Averbeck is head of Smartech and Airnet, $ to/from RNC, Corker

http://www.smartechcorp.net/index.php?page=news&sub=story&id=68

http://www.airnetgroup.com/index.php?s=news&n=6

http://www.airnetgroup.com/index.php?s=news&n=5

http://www.airnetgroup.com/index.php?s=history

"Airnet is the parent company of SMARTech, Stream to You, and Wireless in the Parks ...

In 2002, Airnet converged with SMARTTech Corporation ...

E-Mail Hosting

Reliable and efficient e-mail hosting on dedicated e-mail servers ..."

http://www.fundrace.org/neighbors.php?search=1&type=name&lname=Averbeck&fname=Jeff

Name, Occupation, Employer Contribution Address
Mr. Jeff Averbeck
President
Airnet Group
RNC
$2,500 705 Windy Way
Signal Mountain, TN 37377
Mr. Jeffrey S Averbeck
Ceo
AIRNET GROUP
George W. Bush
$2,000 705 Windy Way
Signal Mountain, TN 37377
Mr. Jeff Averbeck
President
Smartech Corporation
RNC
$930 801 Broad St
Chattanooga, TN 37402

http://casiseguro.blogspot.com/2004/09/siguiendo-con-la-serie-de-artculos-y.html

"... Jeff Averbeck, CEO of Smartech, which is running the Republican websites, says, "Politics today is getting people to get up and do something." More than 1 million volunteers and 6 million e-mail and letter-writing activists have signed up for the Republicans this year over the Web.

All those people make a good test bed for sophisticated database marketing techniques. "When we send out an e-mail," Averbeck says, "I can tell immediately how it was received -- whether it was opened, forwarded, or discarded. We have code in the e-mail that shows me." ..."

http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?city=Chattanooga&st=TN&last=Averbeck&first=Jeff

Airnet/Smartech connection to Bob Corker (besides running his campaign site)...
http://www.wirelessintheparks.com/sponsors.asp

[Old and In the Way]

14. Un-friggen'-believable.

So....Congressional Dems.....how about starting an investigation on this? I'd think the State of Ohio, now in Democratic hands, ought to be conducting their own investigation too. This is truly amazing.

[seafan]

15. Wow, this puts a fresh emphasis on this photo, does it not?

Election night 2004: Rove and Susan Ralston *working the numbers.*



My, my, my.

[emulatorloo]

16. Kick and Rec n/t

[Old and In the Way]

18. You are correct....wow, I can see the connection now.

They had a laptop war room set-up in WH....and I'm sure with the right ftp software you download, correct, and upload the results. Who's the wiser? I really think this is the smoking gun we've been looking for.

[mod mom]

62. This may account for Rove's "math". Direct links to the WH

[Morgana LaFey]

22. and this quote, for 2006

Note the use of the word "switch" --

“Karl the other night said that a switch of 77,000 votes would have kept the House and a switch of 3000 votes would have kept the Senate.”
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x461782#461783

[librechik]

117. excellent catch

I bet he had his finger near the goddamn switch too!

[Morgana LaFey]

135. I think every DUer needs to have that particular quote handy

at all times.

[lonestarnot]

37. Son of a bitch my blood boils every freak'n time I see that hog pic

And the one of asshat in the Whitehouse when he was noticed of the fix.

[malaise]

80. BIngo

Truth will out and the drips will soon fill buckets.

[helderheid]

93. my my indeed!!

:wow:

[ProSense]

97. The story that goes with the photo

Fired prosecutors scandal shines suspicion on 2004 election, and it's not voter fraud

Scroll down.

[seafan]

102. Great compilation, thanks. Gotta keep documenting everything.

Carry on!

[CabalPowered]

17. Now that's interesting

Time to subpoena some records from Smartech.

[Terri S]

19. I always said, if they ever started investigating, it would be a 24/7 job

the web just gets more and more tangled... when is someone going to finally strangle in it??

[SoCalDem]

20. technomania.com's "Hall of Shame"

This hydra has more tentacles than anyone could ever imagine

http://technomania.com/ClientHallofFame.asp

[Janice325]

21. Wow!

The shit is flying fast and furious now.
Karma's a bitch!
k&r

[Beaverhausen]

23. I hope you are sending this info to Leahy, Schumer and Conyers

they will be very interested I'm sure.

[jackstraw45]

24. I think we ALL need to send it and CALL about it....

Staffers can easily miss this stuff.

[Alizaryn]

71. And Olbermann!

[redacted]

25. BOOM!

:nuke:

[jackstraw45]

26. Company called AIRNET shares Smartech offices/phone number

http://www.smartechcorp.net/index.php?page=contact
SmarTech Corp.
801 Broad Street, Suite 220
P.O. Box 11181
Chattanooga, TN 37401


http://airnetgroup.com/index.php?s=contact
Airnet Group
801 Broad Street
Suite 220
Chattanooga, TN 37402

Seems that Airnet is the parent company.

[Emit]

29. Airnet Hosts GOP Internet Sites in 2004

from their website:

Airnet Hosts GOP Internet Sites in 2004
August 22, 2004

Andy Sher Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON - It's more than 700 miles from Madison Square Garden, but that won't stop Chattanooga from "hosting" next week's Republican National Convention in New York City.

Chattanooga based Smartech Corp. is serving as Web host for the convention, bringing the event to computer screens across the globe. The company will provide convention speeches, video-on-demand "streams" and live shots of events through powerful Web servers, most of which are at Smartech's headquarters in downtown Chattanooga.

"The world will view everything from Chattanooga; that's the best way to think about it," said Smartech founder and President Jeff Averbeck. "We'll have one camera (in New York) that looks down from the ceiling on the podium, and then we'll have several others placed around in strategic locations."

He said Smartech will put together a daily montage of video activities for viewing at www.2004nycgop.com. Lee Rainie, executive director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project in Washington, said Smartech's coverage of speeches will be important because television networks have reduced convention coverage from pervious years.

~snip~

http://airnetgroup.com/index.php?s=news&n=5

Also: Fall 2006
Airnet Partners with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for California Victory
http://airnetgroup.com/index.php?s=news&n=3

[bobthedrummer]

140. Kick.

:thumbsup:

[merh]

40. Check out their website

http://www.smartechcorp.net/index.php?page=affiliates

[Patsy Stone]

27. Well, of course.

How else would Rove get in and make sure he was getting the result he'd paid for?

Un-believable. Yet, sadly, not unbelievable.

ed: to add that I cross-posted this in Election Reform (with credit to the author for a great find). They're gonna love it.

[tom_paine]

28. Jesus Christ. The evidence is OUT THERE. Waiting...

...for someone, a TRUE AMERICAN, to pick it up and run with it.

We could have these tyrants in orange jumpsuits (provided they wouldn't nuke us rather than go quietly and serve time for their manifest and multiple felonies) in two years if only someone had the GUTS to risk being anthraxed or have a small plane crash or other "mysterious death".

After the Busheviks anthraxed the newspaper that printed pictures of his drunk daughters, assorted Democratic Senators and the "Liberal Media", who has the guts to stand up to them.

It looks like our Dems might be feeling frisky and putting up some resistance, as well as prosecuting this whole Gonzales/Rove crime...but that's along way from saying anyone is investigating & prosecuting felonies in wholesale election fraud, Iraq War lies, theft of trillions, warrantless wiretapping or any of the other hundreds of felonious actions taken by Loyal Bushies.

And if someone did, look out, because 9/11 #2 would then be coming in a short order, mayhaps directed at the Capitol with Congress in session.

God Forbid the Loyal Bushies are that evil, but based on their actions to date, it cannot be reasonably ruled out.

[Blackhatjack]

30. Democrats Need To Offer To Host Ohio's Official Returns in 2008...

You think the Republicans would be cool with that? LOL

[Duer 157099]

31. Just a detail regarding nameservers...

That's just a database that connects the IP to the domain name -- it *may* or may not have anything to do with where the site is actually hosted.

Although, usually the site is hosted at the same place as the nameserver. But not always.

fyi

[FatDave]

109. But consecutive IP addresses...

Consecutive IP addresses almost always mean the sites are hosted by the same company, because they are doled out in blocks. I haven't dug into this story deep enough yet (at work) to see if that's the case here.

With virtual hosts, there's even the possibility of hosting multiple websites with separate domain names on the same IP address. If that's the case, there can be no question that the sites are not only hosted by the same company, but even on the same server.

[jackstraw45]

32. EPISODEFORTYNINE - down the street from Smartech - provided ELECTION RESULTS to RNC

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x468899

http://e49.com/contact.aspx

e49 provides election results

“Even though we built the original system for the Presidential election back in 2004, this election cycle proved to be challenging.” said Ken Smith, managing partner and chief strategist for episode49, LLC. ”The additional focus placed on the individual races, especially in the House, required a much more detailed breakdown of the raw data we were collecting.”

In 2004, the Republican National Committee was in search of a development firm capable of delivering a bullet proof system to track election night results for the Presidential Election. This system would not only need to track results, but also track exit polling and daytime turnouts. Collection of the data would involve many sources, such as the Associated Press, MCI and thousands of wireless applications with the requirement of delivering the tabulated results of millions of records in 15 minute intervals throughout the day. This need began what has become a very successful business relationship between episode49 and The Bivings Group.

The success of the election night tracking system in 2004 opened the door for episode49 and The Bivings Group to build a newer and more detailed application for the 2006 elections. Turnout percentages and voting results were collected from multiple sources with the addition of updating a detailed polling page that served as scorecard for every race. This was an exciting new feature that enabled users to compare polling numbers from up to 5 of the major polling organizations with the latest results as they were updated. Data was further broken down by congressional and even bellwether districts. A bellwether district is one that has been identified as a leading indicator of future trends.

“We continue to be privileged to build the primary, first response delivery system of election results to the top Republican Organizations around the country,” said Smith, “but it couldn’t be done without a team that remains un-phased by the pressures of knowing that the White House is watching.”

[passy]

78. Still hosted by smartech

http://www.robtex.com/dns/e49.com.html

[passy]

79. And linked to Donatelli group

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_Donatelli_Group

who earn a lot of money through edonations.com

according to these accounts who I think belong to the rnc for 2003 they got paid over 150 000 in bank fees .

http://polipundit.com/BC04-FullReport.xls

It seems like anyone connected to smartech is connected to everyone else and as the accounts show they all benefit financially from those connections.

[renate]

33. question from a nontechnical person

Is there a reason they could control the 2004 election from the White House but not the 2006 one? How come Dems were "allowed" to take the House and Senate?

I wish I could understand what's going on... it sounds so exciting but I don't get it... :cry:

[eridani]

64. They didn't steal enough votes in 2006

I'm a sore winner--we really won by a margin larger than the official margin.

[KittyWampus]

84. IMO, they switched X amount of votes but needed X+ votes to actually win. We won by wider margin

as DU'er above my post also suggests.

We also probably won several other states but didn't get the office because the vote switching WAS successful.

[loudsue]

106. See post # 22 .... Karl misunderestimated how many votes to "switch"

This just keeps getting better & better. Or worse and worse, for us! This needs to go to Waxman and Conyers, and it needs to go IMMEDIATELY to forensic computer specialists. We need a search warrant on that server IMMEDIATELY. There is no time to let them finish scrubbing the evidence.

Please!!!! Whoever has connections with Waxman & Conyers, get this info to them NOW!! This ties together the election results, the RNC taking e-mails from white house operatives, AND the attorney purge. It's high time we let the sun shine on this whole houseful of roaches who have taken over the people's house!

:kick::kick::kick:

[MGKrebs]

34. That is some great work y'all.

This is very interesting.
I have some questions:
What does "host election returns" mean? This can't be the official count? Or even connected to the official count?
If it's NOT connected to the official count, where ARE the numbers coming from?

[jackstraw45]

35. (taken from another thread) Smartech hosts RNCftp.com

Hmm...interesting.

[jackstraw45]

36. SURPRISE: Bush-Cheney Campaign PAID Smartech (AIRNET ) $$$$$

But their official site was hosted elsewhere...hmmm......


http://herndon2.sdrdc.com/cgi-bin/dcdev/forms/C00386987/150115/sb/23/3

AIRNET GROUP INC.
SMARTECH GROUP POST OFFICE BOX 11181
CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee 374012181
10/03/2003
WEB SERVICES 14885.31


AIRNET GROUP INC.
SMARTECH GROUP POST OFFICE BOX 11181
CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee 374012181
11/04/2003
WEB SERVICES 1365.63

[Atman]

38. Funny how these threads never seem to make it onto the freeper sites

They love to mock DU and they read everything we post...but only manage to comment on the sex threads and the ones in which a DUer is experiences some sort of hardship. Their's is a strange reality.

.

[blm]

92. Unfortunately it never makes a diff to some at DU, either. They prefer the powerstructure

in DC have a Dem face in 2009, even knowing they will continue to protect the secrecy and privilege agenda.

[jackstraw45]

39. RNCftp.com -> take a DEEP breath and check this out

http://www.robtex.com/dns/rncftp.com.html

[merh]

42. Holy sheeeeeettttt

That list is incredible. Dayum

[jackstraw45]

44. Looks like a list of sites managed by Smartech - some interesting ones

I WONDER if, just possibly, one of these sites belongs to someone who, perhaps, brought this company to the attention of the RNC...

hmm.

[loudsue]

107. It IS the RNC -- it's their bunker headquarters. Look at all those

groups! One server can contact the whole army of roaches and spread whatever reality they want to.

This is a cyberwar of major proportions. These are the people who have NO QUALMS about subverting our democracy, in any and every way they possibly can. These are our enemies..foreign & domestic.

:kick::kick::kick:

[nolabels]

129. If one can wrap themselves into the mindset of the NO QUALMS........

then most every move would be no surprise. A real investigation into 9/11 (that is going to happen) will eventually bare this fact out

[Patsy Stone]

55. The hits just keep on comin'

:hi:

[merh]

67. but do the folks that need to act on this see it for what it is?

Will this go anywhere?

:hi: :pals:

[Patsy Stone]

68. Well that depends

How involved was this company? Did they allow access? Did Ken help subvert the correct numbers? Did this matter at all? I don't know, but I'd like to find out. As I said below, even if there was nothing improper or illegal, it doesn't pass the smell test.

:hi: :hug:

[GreenPartyVoter]

43. Jeez a lotta info to pass on to Conyers and KO and Jon

[loudsue]

111. Don't forget Bill Maher....he's starting to understand better what's been

going on.

:kick::kick::kick:

[Patsy Stone]

50. What are these?

:rofl:

backendcafe.com

bandwidththatdoesnotsuck.com

[mcg]

83. lookup gwb43.com, Rackspace.com, IndyMedia

another view of this (very similar)...

http://www.robtex.com/dns/gwb43.com.html

also
http://www.robtex.com/dns/a.ns.trespassers-w.net.html

reverse for 1 ip
209.61.172.168(US)

http://www.robtex.com/ip/209.61.172.168.html

Prefix Name: Rackspace com, 112 E Pecan St , Suite 600, San Antonio, TX 78205

From
http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/tags/politics

"... RackSpace vs. the jackboots?

Comments<0> 09:04AM Aug 03, 2005 by Dave in General

From the EFF statement: "Rackspace may claim to provide its customers with 'fanatical support,' but in this case it looks like it was more interested in serving the government," added Kevin Bankston, EFF attorney and Equal Justice Works/Bruce J. Ennis Fellow. "Despite these new revelations, a key question remains: Did government agents intentionally mislead the web host into thinking it had to hand over complete copies of the Indymedia servers?"

To summarize the story: when the US government requested the server logs for the grassroots media network IndyMedia from internet service provider RackSpace, RackSpace couldn't find the files. So RackSpace handed over IndyMedia's servers. I wonder how the government agents worked their magic? Did they threaten to declare RackSpace an enemy combatant and lock the whole company up without a trial?
..."

http://www.betterwhois.com/bwhois.cgi?verification=9231&domain=trespassers-w.net&submitbtn=Continue

Domain name: trespassers-w.net

Registrant Contact:
Cross Computer Consulting
Jeffrey Cross ([e-mail])
423-822-6850
4300 Alabma Ave
Chattanooga, TN 37409-1664 US

Administrative Contact:
Coptix Inc.
Jeffrey Cross ([e-mail])
+1.4238226850
Fax: [phone]
4009 Tennessee Ave
Chattanooga, TN 37409 US

Technical Contact:
Coptix Inc.
Jeffrey Cross ([e-mail])
+1.4238226850
Fax: [phone]
4009 Tennessee Ave
Chattanooga, TN 37409 US

[seafan]

41. This is why Dems must create law requiring hand-counted pen and paper ballots,

counted at the precinct level, with direct public observation, and the results telephoned in to the Secretary of State's office.


For EVERY ELECTION HENCEFORTH.

We MUST remove electronic voting from the process entirely, because the RNC has hijacked our vote.

[helderheid]

105. YES!!

[reprehensor]

45. My jaw...

I can't find my jaw...

[Ellipsis]

46. Oh my goodness... followed some links check this out

snip...

When Brutus Buckeye clicks on Blackwell's Election Night results link, will he recall that his tax dollars were among hundreds of thousands spent by Blackwell on the consulting firm that created the live election returns system was the very same consulting firm behind Bush-Cheney 2004?! Will anyone recognize that Dashboard clicks will be making a roundtrip through Tennessee when SOS J. Kenneth Blackwell throws the right switch on the Internets?

snip...

Ken Blackwell outsourced the design of the Election Night Project to Mike Connell who is a GOP operative and the principal of New Media Communications and GovTech Solutions. Their association may go back as far as the George H. W. Bush era. Connell's long-established association in the online political, campaign and fundraising arenas, in addition to his technological expertise, made him a shoe-in for government and non-government services where pay-to-play is the standard..

On April 7, 2000, Blackwell certified the woman-owned (Connell's wife, Heather), small business that Mike Connell spunoff of New Media Communications in order to provide government contracting service a 'non-partisan' face. When Blackwell stamped 'approval' on that incorporation, he'd previously approved the merger of DCI Group and NewMedia Communications.

http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/story/2006/11/7/115314/922



NewMedia Communications

On two occasions in recent elections, a third-party source recorded that the Ohio election results website 'election.sos.state.oh.us' was operating at an IP address which falls within the range assigned to service hosted by Chattanooga, TN-based Smartechcorp. The IP address assigned to 'election.sos.state.oh.us', 64.203.98.137, lies between IP addresses assigned to VoterVault.com and NRCC.org which are managed by the RNC and affiliates.

Mike Connell started NewMedia Communications and its 'non-partisan' spinoff GovTech Solutions which provide campaign and technical services to a "Who's Who" list of Republicans.


http://www.newmediacommunications.com/OurPeople.asp



GovTech solutions

snip...

In 2002 and 2004, GovTech received authorization from the General Services Administration that allowed federal agencies to purchase services directly from the company without going through the full bidding process. A news release from the company said, "As a GSA-approved vendor, GovTech can contract directly with agencies to streamline the procurement process."

Between October 2002 and the first half of this year, the General Services Administration reported more than $800,000 paid to GovTech by federal agencies. The company has designed Web sites for the White House, Department of Energy, and the 2004 meeting of the Group of 8 in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, among others.

The GSA Schedule contracts from the federal government can serve as a stamp of approval for state and local government purchasers.

In Ohio, Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell's office paid about $465,000 to GovTech, which redesigned the Web site and worked with the office to present Election Night results in 2004. In 1999, when Blackwell co-chaired the congressional Census Monitoring Board, New Media had won a contract to redesign a bilingual Web site for the board.

more...

http://www.publicintegrity.org/consultants/default.aspx?act=profiles&pid=10


Clients of govtechsolutions

http://www.govtechsolutions.com/clients.asp



Yowsers... Theres much out there.

[BuyingThyme]

47. I don't understand these threads. Could it be that Pukes all use

the same server because they offer appropriate (or inappropriate) security?

What's the deal?

[L. Coyote]

52. Cronyism. Not much more as yet shown.

You have it correct. They use a hosting company they trust. Blackwell gave them State of Ohio business. Next step is check to see if there were competitive bids. At most, cronyism until otherwise demonstrated. NO BIG DEAL compared to how votes were switched before reporting them on a host that hosts lots of Bushie sites.

[Ellipsis]

56. GovTech received authorization from the GSA

In 2002 and 2004, GovTech received authorization from the General Services Administration that allowed federal agencies to purchase services directly from the company without going through the full bidding process. A news release from the company said, "As a GSA-approved vendor, GovTech can contract directly with agencies to streamline the procurement process.

[L. Coyote]

58. OHIO is not a fed agency, so did Blackwell let this to bidders?? n/t

[Ellipsis]

60. On April 7, 2000, Blackwell certified the woman-owned (Connell's wife), small business

By giving the Biz minority status... He helped.

My comment wasn't meant just for Ohio. Though some states will allow the use of Preferred Vendors off Federal Bid Lists in RFP requests cuz the vendor has all ready jumped through the hoops ...can't say anything about Ohio though.

On April 7, 2000, Blackwell certified the woman-owned (Connell's wife,) small business that Mike Connell spunoff of New Media Communications in order to provide government contracting service a 'non-partisan' face...

[recoveringdittohed]

81. Here is a link to State of Ohio website & the contract with GovTech

The terms & conditions are 14 pages of legalese. I tried to read it (actually I read it but don't fully comprehend it) and don't see any obvious smoking gun in it. I don't see on the procure.ohio website any contract with smarttech (a keyword search for Smarttech produces no contracts found).

[bleever]

48. Rove and top aide Susan Ralston on election night:

My my, look at all those computers. And Karl's talking on a phone that's got a label on the handset; must be special. Hotline to the pizza place?

[Patsy Stone]

53. Hardly the pizza place...

From the dKos diary:

Is there significance to the fact that election.sos.state.oh.us, on Tuesday
night, will correspond to the IP address that lies between Karl Rove's
Votervault.com and the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC)?

[bleever]

69. Whaaaaaaa???

Lordamighty: it's the piece of duct tape over the locks at the Watergate building.


Thank you.

:yourock:

[Patsy Stone]

72. This explains a bit more

It seems that after hiring help for the last couple of elections, because Kathy B. didn't think the regular ol' SoS servers could handle it, they reported in real time in 2006 just fine -- no overload. They still sent the results to the mirror RNC server, but they reported them at their own domain also. ePluribus believes it was because of the original article they published. This is where the article was posted which inspired the original post at dKos, and this is the follow-up article after 2006. http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/story/2006/11/9/61233/1283

[bleever]

73. Hansel's regrettal.

"No one could have anticipated that the birds that ate our trail of bird crumbs would be progressive bloggers."

[Ellipsis]

70. It's the $64,000.00 question isn't it?

[SharonRB]

51. My head has just officially exploded

[Patsy Stone]

54. It's enough to make you vomit.

:hi:

[Marie26]

57. So what does this mean?

How does this show that the election was manipulated? I agree it's odd, but I'm not seeing how you're saying that this information explains how the election was actually manipulated. SMARTECH seems to be a favorite server for Republican organizations, so the Rep. SOS gave them the Ohio contract as well. But I don't see the direct connection between gwb43 & the SOS site - what am I missing?

[Patsy Stone]

59. It questions whether or not, due to party loyalty

they might have been lax in who they allowed to access the results. Because the tabulations went to the SoS's office, and there was an entity very close to the RNC in between the SoS office's actual tabulations and the "official results" published for the public; even if there was no impropriety, it stinks to high heaven.

ed: gram.

[Marie26]

63. It's corporate outsourcing of gov. functions

But we've had that for years. This company was responsible for designing the website on which election results were reported. I'd be more concerned if a Republican crony corp. had a contract to actually count the votes, but that was done by election workers. I tend to think it was just normal Bushco cronyism at work - but like you say, it at least raises a question of impropriety. Blackwell was so corrupt that I wouldn't be surprised by anything he did. I just don't understand enough about network servers to know whether this is actually a bombshell or not.

[Patsy Stone]

74. If they were doing any WH business on a private server

to prevent archiving, that's bad. Karl's assistant wrote to the DoJ from gwb43.com, discussing the USAs, on a non-government server. That's bad.

[Marie26]

75. No doubt. nt

[Cobalt Violet]

61. And the plot thickens...

I just don't know what to make of this but it doesn't sound good. It sticks.

[yardwork]

65. k&r for the truth

[mod mom]

66. PLEASE ALSO JOIN ME IN CONTACTING OH AG MARC DANN:

I'm illiterate when it comes to computers, but since Ohio now has an AG who will fight for the people, should we also contact him:

Marc Dann’s site is http://www.ag.state.oh.us/

[grannylib]

76. I think a couple of these companies named are the same ones that Carol

Lam was uncovering in her Duke Cunningham and related rePiglican scumbags investigation. I will have to look for links, but someone on DU was posting some research when this first hit about dummy companies being set up for phony DOD contracts, money being skimmed off to RNC and GOP campaigns...sounds like another offshoot of the same basic premise to use taxpayer dollars to fund their own evil global takeover.

[donkeyotay]

120. I have a vague recollection of that, but nothing specific yet. There's this though

They do defense contracting. Their work is done in Steny Hoyer's, a sponser of HAVA, district. If you pull down on the page you'll see a chart of their income from us. It peaks in 2004.

http://www.fedspending.org/fpds/fpds.php?reptype=r&detail=-1&sortby=f&datype=T&reptype=r&database=fpds&database=fpds&parent_id=259802&fiscal_year=2005&record_num=f500

[And the Oscar goes]

77. Am I right in remembering Blackwell had direct access to the tabulator?

I might be talking out of my ass here, but from what I can remember, Blackwell had direct access to the Diebold tabulator from his office so he could "authorize" the results. That tabulator had links to the machines throughout the state. Updating the election results was live, but I bet the tabulator server and the election results host server are different - one would be Diebold and the other SMARTECH. Running the tabulator on the same host server as the election results would have been too compromising. But, there had to be an ftp (or something) link between the tabulator and the election results host for the updating. That would have been configured either by the tabulator company (Diebold) or the RNC. If badly configured, this could have allowed open access to the tabulator results from anyone with admin access to the RNC owned SMARTECH host. This would have given Blackwell plausible deniability. "Just let our techies configure that uplink there...). If the SMARTECH host server was used in this way, it's illegal because political parties aren't allowed to access raw election data. Only checking the server log would tell whether the election server was used to look at raw tabulator data. Of course, if it was actually used to manipulate data, that would be election fraud. manipulation of election data could easily have been done at the tabulator level or via access to the voting machines. Both are criminal acts. Because the servers were used in an election, they would be auditable material.

It would have needed one man or woman to steal Ohio, together with fudged recounts. That much appears clear. _One_ man or woman.

[Bluebear]

82. Is Kerry still working behind the scenes to contest Ohio?

:hide:

[Darkhawk32]

86. If the scene was about ten miles in front of him, then maybe. n/t

[Roland99]

85. Blackwell wasn't kidding when he said he'd deliver Ohio for Bush, eh?

:mad:

[passy]

88. Swit Boat Liars connection

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Swift_Boat_Veterans_for_Truth

"The Donatelli Group, which produced the RNC website <54>, on July 30, 2004, registered the SWIFTBOATVETSFORTRUTH.ORG website with Connell Donatelli Inc. (a.k.a. The Donatelli Group) as registrant. Connell Donatelli Inc. also registered the SWIFTBOATVETSFORTRUTH.COM website on July 30, 2004, with CD, Inc. as both the website's administrator and tech organization. "

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_Donatelli_Group

there's a lot of money going to that group from the RNC especially through edonations.com

If one looks at the list of consultants for the * campaign in 2004 you will see that quite of few of those companies hosted by Smartech are listed especially New Media under the name technomania.com

http://www.publicintegrity.org/consultants/list.aspx?act=canDetail&id=P00003335



PS: New media and Donatelli are also connected to the Joe Lieberman for Senate campaign site, isupportjoe is a sub domain of technomania.com.

[glitch]

89. Rapublicons abandoned avoiding even the appearance of impropriety long ago.

Now even cronyism is looked at as nothing to see here.

They do not deserve the benefit of any doubt, doubt should no longer exist on any of their actions.

Having votes anywhere near party servers should be too Soviet for Americans.

[The Count]

90. See the episode 49 connection (also on the server) & 2004,2006 elections plans

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x468899#468961
notadmblnd
13. I'll bet Karl rove was e-mailing like hell

Edited on Wed Mar-21-07 07:57 PM by notadmblnd
on election night.

here's a snip:

pisode49 launches a new Election Results Tracking system for 2006

"Even though we built the original system for the Presidential election back in 2004, this election cycle proved to be challenging." said Ken Smith, managing partner and chief strategist for episode49, LLC. "The additional focus placed on the individual races, especially in the House, required a much more detailed breakdown of the raw data we were collecting."

In 2004, the Republican National Committee was in search of a development firm capable of delivering a bullet proof system to track election night results for the Presidential Election. This system would not only need to track results, but also track exit polling and daytime turnouts. Collection of the data would involve many sources, such as the Associated Press, MCI and thousands of wireless applications with the requirement of delivering the tabulated results of millions of records in 15 minute intervals throughout the day. This need began what has become a very successful business relationship between episode49 and The Bivings Group.
http://e49.com/news/pages/episode49-launches-a-new-Elec...

[CrazyOrangeCat]

91. Bastards are toast.

[Roland99]

94. Yeah, esp. with that LIBERAL MEDIA blasting this from every street corner.

:sarcasm:

[CrazyOrangeCat]

98. If they won't, at last, broadcast some real news, some truth . . .

. . . then the truth will circumvent the MSM entirely.

The truth will get out to the people about this. Somehow, someway. It's an octopus of a story, and it can't be contained.

[stubtoe]

101. I sure hope you're right. eom

[earth mom]

95. Why is anyone surprised?

Most of us who used to hang out at the DU election forum knew this or something like it had occurred.

:grr:

[loudsue]

112. That's EXACTLY why election threads should NOT be sent to the basement

They need to be on GD or GD: Politics to make sure more people can see them. Too many on this board have been complacent since the Dems managed to win ENOUGH of a majority to take stealing the election out of Karl Rove's hands. See post #22 on this thread: He misunderestimated how MANY votes he had to "switch". You can COUNT ON IT that he won't make the same mistake in 2008!!

The electronic vote counting has GOT TO STOP, AND IT'S GOT TO STOP BEFORE 2008!!

We really need to get this information before a congressional committee, while we still have a majority. DUers with connections to the Senate & the House need to start putting together a presentation, and start lobbying for a meeting.

NOW!!!!

:kick::kick::kick::kick::kick:

[Botany]

96. The Sec. of State's office has it's own servers

Something smells big time.

Boy this U.S. Attorney firings have pulled the covers off of
so much dirt.

[Gloria]

99. If John Edwards had known this......

[paparush]

100. I GUARANTEE you that Smartech and Airnet have zeroed those servers...

any evidence has been overwritten 35 times with zeroes...its gone...

[loudsue]

114. That's what I'm afraid of, paparush. We TRIED to get investigations

of this BEFORE it was too late. Millions of us contributed money in 2004 to Kerry's campaign for a whole army of lawyers to go in and investigate this. It never happened.

Where in the hell is Congress on this whole thing? We TOLD them the thing was stolen. We told them not to vote on the Homeland Security Act. We told them not to vote for the Iraq war. They all called us "conspiracy theorists". Well,

IT'S NOT A THEORY ANYMORE!! WE HAVE PROOF!

:kick::kick::kick:

[redacted]

131. Agreed loudsue. But isn't proof of mere access by the Smartech sysads enough,

along with the cover-up?

In other words, one can safely presume that a GOP (Smartech) system administrator WILL change votes on a voting system if it's located on the same server as other GOP systems to which that sysad has access. That's a given.

So why isn't it enough proof to show only the mere access (not necessarily alterations to actual data files), along with the cover-up of knowledge of the sysad's access to the voting system, to investigators?

[Left Brain]

103. god how I love

DU and DUers!
jackstraw45, you rock!

[OneBlueSky]

104. it's political . . . so what? . . . aren't elections political? . . . (sarcasm) . . . n/t

.

[Mnemosyne]

108. I called Leahy and Conyers about this yesterday.

Asst. said they would pass it on.

:woohoo:

[loudsue]

116. You need to call back & link this thread to one of their aides.

Get the aide to give you an e-mail address where you can send a link to this thread. Ok?? Please!?? Pretty please??? :loveya:



:kick::kick::kick:


On edit: I'd do it myself, but I'm on dialup, and as long as I'm on line, the phone line isn't open to call them. PLEASE!! Someone with a highspeed hookup, call Conyers & Waxman & link this thread to them!!

Thanks!

:kick::kick::kick:

[bleever]

118. Thank you!

:woohoo:

[benld74]

110. DOES IT SUPRISE ME? NO

[byronius]

113. So --- ultra-smelly.

What some humans are willing to do, to gain and consolidate power -- not historically surprising.

But sooooooooooooooooooooooo un-American.

[IWantAChange]

115. this has to see the light of day - the possibilities are ENORMOUS

discounting vacation time Dems have been on the job less than what? 11 weeks? and look at what Oversight has uncovered already - time to install the overtime clock and get after it in earnest.

[loudsue]

119. GREAT post, Jackstraw!!!

:kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick:

K & R & back up to the top

:kick::kick::kick::kick::kick:

[caligirl]

121. Tobacco suit fine dropped from 130mill to 10 bill: Sharon Ubanks resigned

Other moves at DoJ, however, alarm lawyers of all stripes with their partisanship. In 2005, the Department of Justice was about to wind up its big racketeering case against the tobacco industry, which had begun during the Clinton presidency. The lead attorney on it, Sharon Eubanks, says that when John Ashcroft became attorney general, she laid out the options for him: drop the case, or some of the claims, or continue to pursue it. She was told to go ahead. But on the day of her summation at the trial, deputies for Gonzales, who'd since become attorney general, apparently had second thoughts. Over Eubanks' objection, they forced her to cut the government's claim for damages from $130 billion to $10 billion. She saw that as a big fat gift to the tobacco companies, and she subsequently resigned, after 22 years as a DoJ attorney. "The reason they went ahead with the case was that they did not think I was capable of leading a team of 30 to 35 lawyers to victory over 350 lawyers on the other side," Eubanks said when I reached her this week at home. "I'm a small black woman. I'd go over to the main building and I'd say we had a good day, and the political people didn't pay much attention. The moment the relationship changed was before my closing argument, when I went in and said we'd won the case. It was at that point that they came after us."

http://www.slate.com/id/2162375/

Scenes From a HijackingToday at the Senate, plus all the Justice Department scandals you aren't hearing about.
By Emily Bazelon

[redacted]

122. THAT DOES IT. SOMEBODY NEEDS TO CALL HOUSE JUDICIARY & THE SENATE ASAP

I can't. I'm at work. Drives me nuts that I can't drop what I'm doing and take more steps during these 10-minute breaks. Somebody, please pick up the phone!

[Botany]

123. Puts into perspective Tom DeLay's 1/6/05 comment on the House floor

When the challenge to the 04 election was be discussed .....

"What do these conspiracy people think? That Karl Rove was in the White House
Basement on a couple of computers flipping votes?"

Thanx for telling us that Tom.

[loudsue]

125. I'm sure he said it with a smirk. What an asshole.

What a give-away.

Yes, Tom, that's EXACTLY what us "conspiracy" people thought. Only now it's not just a "theory" anymore, is it?

Score:

Conspiracy theorists 26
Tow the line mainstreamers 0 (ZERO)

We seem to be the only people who have actually been paying attention!!


:kick::kick::kick:

[Botany]

126. I was on 11/2/04 to 11/3/04 to 3:30 AM

I was watching the returns come in on with the I.T. people in Kerry's
Columbus Hotel

I remember one guy breaking down and crying .... it was like somebody
flipped a switch .... the data was coming 70 ... 80 ... 90% for bush.

It didn't matter the state, the county, or the precinct.

Any bets on how this story will not see the light of day on the MSM?

[jackstraw45]

137. This is insane. We live in a banana republic...nt

NT

[glitch]

127. What about all the comments that if there was something wrong why weren't their any charges filed?

If there were no investigations that must mean there wasn't anything really wrong with the election and we were all just paranoid conspiracy theorists.
Anybody else remember all those posts?

Edit: meant to put this on a fired US Attorneys thread but whatever. It's all gamed.

[nomatrix]

128. Looking back on the Ohio lockdown

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/10/1536254


"In one precinct, 638 people cast ballots. Yet, George W Bush got 4,258 votes to John Kerry's 260. In reality, Bush only received 365 votes. That means Bush got nearly 3,900 extra votes. And that was just in one small precinct. This in a state that Bush officially won by only 136,000 votes. Elections officials blamed electronic voting for the extra Bush votes.

Now, questions are being raised across the state of Ohio. In Cuyahoga County, Ohio, the County's website shows its 29 precincts had more votes than voters. In fact, it wasn't just a handful. It registered a whopping 93,000 more votes than voters. In Fairview Park, twelve miles west of downtown Cleveland, only 13,342 people were registered voters there, but they cast 18,472 votes.

Meanwhile, in Warren County, Ohio election officials took a rather unprecedented action on November 2. They locked down the building where the votes were being tallied, blocking anyone from observing the vote counting process. County officials said they took the action in response to a terror threat warning from the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI. County Commissioner Pat South said they were told by an FBI agent that the county was facing a level 10 security threat on a scale of 1 to 10. George Bush won 72% of the county's more than 92,000 votes."


This from the report linked in the Enquirer....



"Officials at the FBI, which oversees anti-terrorism activities in southern Ohio, said they received no information about a terror threat in Warren County.

"The FBI did not notify anyone in Warren County of any specific terrorist threat to Warren County before Election Day," FBI spokesman Michael Brooks said.

A spokeswoman for Ohio's top homeland security official, Public Safety Director Ken Morckel, knew of no heightened terror warning for either Warren County or any other Greater Cincinnati community on election night."

[loudsue]

130. Has anyone sent this thread to the congresscritters??

Please??

:kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick:

[bobthedrummer]

141. Some of them know a lot more than we do-the staffers too.

It's insidious.

[redqueen]

133. Call your senators & rep... send this link to people in the media...

Get it out there.

This is big.



Thanks for posting it here, jackstraw. :hi:

[crispini]

136. The meaning of TRESPASSERS-W, if you're interested.

It's from Winnie the Pooh. It's Piglet's grandfather's name, actually, and was up on a board next to Piglet's house. Trespassers-W, which is short for Trespassers William. And from the illustrations, of course, one concludes that it's actually short for Trespassers Will be Prosecuted. :D

[Botany]

138. Did I ever tell you that you are my Fav?

Boy does this stink .... bush / Cheney 04 handled the vote count in Ohio.

But we do have a new Sec. of State, Jennifer Brunner, and she is kicking ass on election fraud.

I sent her this info .....

[bobthedrummer]

139. Susan Bonzon Ralston should testify under oath along with Karl Rove

Ken Mehlman, Jennifer Farley, Ruben Barrales, Barry Jackson and a lot of others since these folks were known Jack Abramoff WH contacts-plus with this new information it's time to get them under oath and prosecute them for their lies and crimes that have piled so high-not just in Ohio but all over the world.

House Oversight Committee: The Abramoff Investigation/White House contacts
http://oversight.house.gov/abramoff/index2.asp