Plane Crash Kills Rove IT Guy, Testified in OH Voter Fraud Case, Key in White House Email Scandal

[SharonRB]

Source: Firedoglake

Mike Connell, Karl Rove's IT guru--who was compelled six weeks ago to testify in an Ohio vote-tampering case--was killed late Friday night in a solo plane crash. His plane crashed into the garage of an empty house. Per Cybrinth CEO Stephen Spoonamore, Connell was also considered "vital to uncovering the truth" about the missing White House emails considered a critical link to the Justice Department and White House's involvement in the firings of nine US attorneys.

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Connell asked him about ways to "permanently destroy hard drives." Spoonamore said "If this is what I think you're talking about, this meeting is over."

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Connell, president of GovTech Solutions and New Media Communications, was a website designer and IT professional who created the website for Ohio’s secretary of state Kenneth K. Blackwell that presented the 2004 election results in real time as they were tabulated.


Connell created websites for Blackwell's election runs was well as the one which tabulated and displayed votes in real time. During the 2004 elections, Blackwell was also chairman of Bush-Cheney 2004 reelection effort in Ohio, successfully leading the campaign for the 2004 Ohio Constitution Amendment banning state recognition of same sex marriage or civil unions. Blackwell was unseated in 2006 by Ted Strickland.



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My tinfoil hat is really on tight for this one. Why have so many people involved with Rove met an untimely end? Certainly makes one wonder.

On edit:
I now see this has been discussed several times today already. Sorry - I've been out all day and didn't see it.

[Dragonfli]

1. This seems like nit-picking but is rather important - incorrect title by article author

It is actually election fraud, Voter fraud is very rare and involves fraud committed by voters.
Election fraud is the correct term for manipulating the results of an election.

It is important because the RW uses false claims of voter fraud to disenfranchise voters and there are very few cases - to confuse terms makes there claims appear to be important when they can't even show examples. Also, in the case of election fraud, one must be clear that it is not the voters fault, the term confusion only helps the bogus claims of voter fraud while making unverifiable voting election fraud schemes appear to be on par with their bogus claims.

I noticed you only used the title of what you posted, it would be a good idea in the future to put "voter fraud" in quotes in such an instance.

Putting on my own ti-foil hat I will admit I believe there has been a deliberate attempt to confuse the terms, and it is working, so let's not help with that just because an author has probably innocently, fallen into the trap.