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Showing Original Post only (View all)Anonymous, Karl Rove and 2012 Election Fix? - Thom Hartmann/Truth-Out [View all]
Anonymous, Karl Rove and 2012 Election Fix?Monday, 19 November 2012 16:02
By Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks , The Daily Take | News Analysis
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At around 11:25 pm EST on election night, Karl Rove knew something had gone terribly wrong.
Minutes earlier, Fox News called the key battleground state of Ohio for President Obama, sealing his re-election. But as the network took live shots of jubilant Obama supporters celebrating their victory camped outside the Obama re-election headquarters in Chicago, Karl Rove began building a case against the call his employer network had just made.
Rove explained that when Fox called Ohio, only 74% of the vote was in showing President Obama with a lead of roughly 30,000 votes. But, as Rove contended, with 77% reporting according to the Ohio Secretary of State office, the Presidents lead had been slashed to just 991 votes.
We gotta be careful about calling the thing, Rove said, Id be very cautious about intruding in on this process.
Rove was supremely confident that the numbers coming in from Ohio throughout the night that favored President Obama werent indicative of who would win Ohio when all the votes were ultimately tabulated by the state's computers. With a quarter of the vote still out there, Rove was anticipating a shift to the Right just after 11 pm, which, coincidentally, is exactly what happened in 2004.
That year, John Kerry and the entire nation were watching Ohio just after the 11pm hour. Florida had just been called for George W. Bush and according to the Electoral College math whoever won Ohio would win the election. And considering that exit polls from the state showed John Kerry with a substantial lead, there were a lot of tense moments for Karl Rove and the Republicans that night.
Then the clock struck 11:14pm, and the servers counting the votes in Ohio crashed. Election officials had planned for this sort of thing to happen and already contracted with a company in Chattanooga, Tennessee called SMARTech to be the failsafe should the servers in Ohio go down.
As journalist Craig Unger lays bare in his book, Boss Rove, SMARTech was drenched in Republican politics. One of the early founders of the company was Mercer Reynolds who used to the finance chairman of the Republican Party. SMARTechs top client was none other than the Bush-Cheney campaign itself and SMARTech also did work for Jeb Bush and the Republican National Committee. And it was Ohios Republican Secretary of State, Ken Blackwell, who ensured that SMARTech received the contract to count votes on election night should the servers go down, which they did at exactly 11:14pm.
Sixty long seconds later the servers came back up in Ohio, but now with vote rerouted through SMARTech in Chattanooga. And, coincidentally, Bushs prospects for re-election were suddenly a lot brighter. The vote totals that poured into the system from SmartTECH's computer in Chattanooga were flipping the exit polls on their head. The lead Kerry had in the exit polls had magically reversed by more than 6%, something unheard of in any other nation in the developed world, giving Bush the win in Ohio and the presidency for another four years.
Unger further explains in his book that the only independent analysis of what happened in Ohio was done by Richard Hayes Phillips and published in the book, Witness to a Crime. Phillips and his team analyzed more than 120,000 ballots, 127 polls books, and 141 signature books from Ohios 2004 election.
Phillips found zero irregularities in vote totals from all the counties that reported results before the servers crashed at 11:14pm. But of the fourteen counties that came in after the crash connected Ohio's election computers to SmartTECH's computers in Chattanooga, every single one of them showed voter irregularities - that all favored George W. Bush.
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I DO NOT! And, there are false statements in the article. They make a case on a LIE.
Coyotl
Nov 2012
#44
After reading and seeing the Anon stuff I am partially convinced that they just might have had .....
4bucksagallon
Nov 2012
#27
I agree that if indeed Anonymous did this service, they should produce the
arthritisR_US
Nov 2012
#8
Excellent--thank you for this. If there is proof, SHOW IT! And lets the chips fall where
msanthrope
Nov 2012
#102
So, you are "in" IT and you declare "it's bullshit", therefore it must be so. Whew, I feel so much
rhett o rick
Nov 2012
#25
We can doubt it because it was sent to Velvet Revolution instead of anywhere else
Coyotl
Nov 2012
#59
I dont claim to "believe" any such thing. But I dont deny that it could happen either.
rhett o rick
Nov 2012
#84
Lots of DEMs are in IT.... it takes brains and patience and willingness to work.
Tigress DEM
Nov 2012
#18
You don't care if there are facts because you believe "SOMEBODY stopped Ohio from being hacked"
Coyotl
Nov 2012
#49
Doesn't your attitude amount to assuming the circumstances are innocent until proven "guilty"?
bigmonkey
Nov 2012
#99
It's easy with our instant access to media to want things to clarify, maybe it's just frustration
Tigress DEM
Nov 2012
#111
I CARE about facts. However, in cases like these so much is impossible to know for sure.
Tigress DEM
Nov 2012
#107
IMHO There Are Two People/Sides That Can Verify Whether This Is A Conspiracy Theory Or Not.........
global1
Nov 2012
#71
And you think that calling me a "vote hacking conspiracy theorist" is somehow
rhett o rick
Nov 2012
#93
I keep telling them that this behavior is offensive, but they don't seem to care.
reusrename
Nov 2012
#33
Where was your "righteous concern" when Allen West spewed the same CT bullshit about his race?
RomneyLies
Nov 2012
#38
The poster is protecting the voting machines. The question those so inclined like to dodge is why
TheKentuckian
Nov 2012
#94
What system was Rove looking at the other night when he remarked that the data page wouldn't refresh
patrice
Nov 2012
#29
No, no, no!! Conspiracies DO NOT exist! This could NOT have happened! Why? Because....
OldDem2012
Nov 2012
#40
If they can send an anonymous email, they can send a printout of the code they found.
randome
Nov 2012
#41
Wow. You must have been offended by the phrase in my post that reads as follows:....
OldDem2012
Nov 2012
#43
LOL. Why should Anonymous feel compelled or required to do anything at all?....
OldDem2012
Nov 2012
#70
Vote Hacking is the religion of the left like Birth Certificates are the religion of the right.
RomneyLies
Nov 2012
#53
So some anonymous person on the internet makes a claim and we're supposed to believe it?
RomneyLies
Nov 2012
#52
The real reason Obama won is because I was cleaning out the attic and found my old childhood
MADem
Nov 2012
#54
If it's the real Anonymous, it appears their proof is in what they've been able to do in the past...
OldDem2012
Nov 2012
#60
Yes. There is still too much voter suppression going on. And too many chances for errors and fraud.
randome
Nov 2012
#90
The would-be-Anon video promised the evidence will be turned over to authorities
Coyotl
Nov 2012
#113
I think that was even more bizarre was the way Romney was acting, refusing to concede.
Michigan Alum
Nov 2012
#112