Flashback:Republican IT guy set to testify in a case alleging election tampering dies in plane crash

[J_J_]

AMY GOODMAN: A top Republican internet strategist who was set to testify in a case alleging election tampering in 2004 in Ohio has died in a plane crash. Mike Connell was the chief IT consultant to Karl Rove and created websites for the Bush and McCain electoral campaigns. He also set up the official Ohio state election website reporting the 2004 presidential election returns.

Connell was reportedly an experienced pilot. He died instantly Friday night when his private plane crashed in a residential neighborhood near Akron, Ohio.

Michael Connell was deposed one day before the election this year by attorneys Cliff Arnebeck and Bob Fitrakis about his actions during the 2004 vote count and his access to Karl Rove’s email files and how they went missing.

Velvet Revolution, a non-profit investigating Connell’s activities, revealed this weekend that Connell had recently said he was afraid George Bush and Dick Cheney would “throw [him] under the bus.” Cliff Arnebeck had also previously alerted Attorney General Michael Mukasey to alleged threats from Karl Rove to Connell if he refused to “take the fall.”

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/12/22/republican_it_specialist_dies_in_plane


What has changed since then?

Media has eliminated exit polls which use to be the canary in the coal mine.

Our elections are still set up for fraud, and anyone who gets in the way can ....die!

Does everyone really think getting out the vote will get a fair election?

In 2004, exit polls were exact opposite of results, they basically flipped the vote.

So the more we vote and win, the better it will look for Republicans when they flip the vote.

I wish I could trust elections, but there is no evidence supporting that they are fair.

[OnyxCollie]

1. Chuck Hagel,

one of the four authors of HAVA, who has business and financial ties with electronic voting machine manufacturer ES&S, is now Secretary of Defense, the department which oversees the NSA, which contracts its domestic spying to Booz Allen Hamilton, owned by the Carlyle Group.

Nothing to be concerned with, I'm sure.

[J_J_]

2. we are seriously fucked

particularly because even on a democratic website that was started on the premise of a phony stolen election...no one wants to believe we are being controlled by election fraud.

[OnyxCollie]

4. Not to worry.

There's a Democrat in charge.

Everything's cool now.

[deutsey]

3. It's only another coincidence that just so happens to benefit a morally bankrupt minion

of the power elite.

Nothing to see here.

[FSogol]

5. And why bring this old story up weeks from the midterms? These midterms

are too important to listen to ratfuckers. GOTV.

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[J_J_]

6. because not only do we need to vote, we need to hand count the ballots!

They are going to steal the senate seat in Alaska

Alaskans HATE Sullivan- He wrote HB77 "Silencing Alaskans Act" Rove is going to steal election
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025669964