The GOP's cyber election hit squad/ plus questions

Written by: F. Gluck on Apr 26, 2007 11:00 AM EDT

This astounding article about Election Night 2004 in Ohio makes me wonder about the fact that in Los Angeles County, the central tabulators are in rooms with internet connectivity and it has been difficult for citizens to get straight answers about the voting system in place. http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2007/2553

The GOP's cyber election hit squad

by Steven Rosenfeld and Bob Fitrakis

April 22, 2007

Did the most powerful Republicans in America have the computer capacity, software skills and electronic infrastructure in place on Election Night 2004 to tamper with the Ohio results to ensure George W. Bush's re-election? The answer appears to be yes.

There is more than ample documentation to show that on Election Night 2004, Ohio's "official" Secretary of State website – which gave the world the presidential election results – was redirected from an Ohio government server to a group of servers that contain scores of Republican web sites, including the secret White House e-mail accounts that have emerged in the scandal surrounding Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s firing of eight federal prosecutors.

Recent revelations have documented that the Republican National Committee (RNC) ran a secret White House e-mail system for Karl Rove and dozens of White House staffers. This high-tech system used to count and report the 2004 presidential vote– from server-hosting contracts, to software-writing services, to remote-access capability, to the actual server usage logs themselves – must be added to the growing congressional investigations.

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