[Biofuel] Anonymous, Karl Rove and 2012 Election Fix?
Believe it or not... http://truth-out.org/news/item/12845-anonymous-karl-rove-and-2012-election-fix Anonymous, Karl Rove and 2012 Election Fix? Monday, 19 November 2012 16:02 By Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks , The Daily Take | News Analysis 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 President's lead had been slashed to just 991 votes. We gotta be careful about calling the thing, Rove said, I'd 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 weren't 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. SMARTech's 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 Ohio's 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, Bush's 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 Ohio's 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. For example, consider Cleveland's Fourth Ward. In 2000, Al Gore won 95% of that ward's vote. But in 2004, the county reported its results after the 11:14 pm crash, and it showed that Kerry had only won 59% of the vote - a 35% drop without any explanation. There were several other abnormalities across Ohio's post-server crash that delivered the state to Bush. John Kerry never protested the election and to this day, these 2004 voter abnormalities have never been addressed. So the question is: on election night this year, when Karl Rove was protesting the call his network had just made in Ohio, was Rove anticipating a wave of unpredicted vote totals to swing the election back to Mitt Romney after a statewide server crash, just as had happened in 2004? Perhaps. He did make the point that the race was about to drastically narrow according to the Secretary of State's office. And as The Free Press reports, a number of odd similarities with 2004 began
Re: [Biofuel] Anonymous, Karl Rove and 2012 Election Fix?
ha, i was about to post this one. an investigation into the '04 ohio election results was opened, but stalled and was then dropped (i'm not clear on why). it was then picked up by some attorneys (again, somewhat murky: what was their competence? haven't had a chance yet to try and dig for these details) who, it seems, may have been on the verge of 'flipping' the IT guy at the center of all this. he had allegedly been threatened if he didn't take the fall. so these attorneys inform the relevant govt attorneys' offices of the need to give this guy protection. not much later, he dies in a small aircraft accident (shades of paul wellstone). these stories are linked in the tom hartmann article. anyway, a new twist on old news. . . . On Nov 22, 2012 10:55 AM, Keith Addison ke...@journeytoforever.org wrote: Believe it or not... http://truth-out.org/news/**item/12845-anonymous-karl-** rove-and-2012-election-fixhttp://truth-out.org/news/item/12845-anonymous-karl-rove-and-2012-election-fix Anonymous, Karl Rove and 2012 Election Fix? Monday, 19 November 2012 16:02 By Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks , The Daily Take | News Analysis 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 President's lead had been slashed to just 991 votes. We gotta be careful about calling the thing, Rove said, I'd 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 weren't 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. SMARTech's 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 Ohio's 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, Bush's 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 Ohio's 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. For example, consider Cleveland's Fourth Ward. In 2000, Al Gore won 95% of that
Re: [Biofuel] Anonymous, Karl Rove and 2012 Election Fix?
Hi Chris ha, i was about to post this one. Please don't let that discourage you! Follow-up below. All best Keith an investigation into the '04 ohio election results was opened, but stalled and was then dropped (i'm not clear on why). it was then picked up by some attorneys (again, somewhat murky: what was their competence? haven't had a chance yet to try and dig for these details) who, it seems, may have been on the verge of 'flipping' the IT guy at the center of all this. he had allegedly been threatened if he didn't take the fall. so these attorneys inform the relevant govt attorneys' offices of the need to give this guy protection. not much later, he dies in a small aircraft accident (shades of paul wellstone). these stories are linked in the tom hartmann article. anyway, a new twist on old news. . . . On Nov 22, 2012 10:55 AM, Keith Addison ke...@journeytoforever.org wrote: Believe it or not... http://truth-out.org/news/item/12845-anonymous-karl-rove-and-2012-election-fix Anonymous, Karl Rove and 2012 Election Fix? Monday, 19 November 2012 16:02 By Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks , The Daily Take | News Analysis At around 11:25 pm EST on election night, Karl Rove knew something had gone terribly wrong. snip http://truth-out.org/news/item/12871-why-anonymous-claims-about-election-rigging-cant-be-ignored Why Anonymous' Claims about Election-Rigging Can't Be Ignored Tuesday, 20 November 2012 15:18 By Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks, The Daily Take | News Analysis As laid out in the previous article, Anonymous, Karl Rove and the 2012 Election Fix?, it's possible that Karl Rove used SmartTECH's servers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to flip the vote totals in Ohio in 2004 and thus steal the election that year for George W. Bush - and just as possible that he tried to do the same thing this year on Romney's behalf but was thwarted by the hacktivist group Anonymous. Many people have responded to these claims with a variation on: That's impossible. A presidential candidate committing treason? That would never happen, and, if it did, it would be front-page news. Everybody would know about it, right? Wrong. Consider some simple history. In 1952 Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower won the presidency - and there's not a hint of scandal associated with that election. Maybe that's because he supported a 91% top marginal income tax rate on the rich and approved of very popular New Deal programs like Social Security and unemployment benefits. As he told his brother in a letter in 1954, Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these thingsa few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid. But Eisenhower was the last legitimately elected Republican president. Richard Nixon, who won the 1968 election against Vice President Hubert Humphrey, followed Eisenhower. At the time, the Vietnam War was raging, millions of students were in the streets, and President Lyndon Johnson, throughout 1968, was working desperately to bring a negotiated end to that war. He'd gotten both the North and the South Vietnamese to agree to terms of peace, and, by late September, there was only a meeting in Paris to seal the deal. And then the CIA brought LBJ a wiretap they'd intercepted between the Nixon for President Campaign and the office of the President of South Vietnam, Nguy?n V?n Thi?u. Nixon basically told them that if they refused to go to the peace talks, or at least refused to go along with the peace agreement Johnson had worked out with them, then Nixon would give them a much better deal after the election. LBJ was furious. This was treason, and because he could listen to the CIA phone intercepts, he knew that Richard Nixon was at the heart of it. So he called the senior Republican in the US Senate, Everett Dirksen, one of the most honorable men to hold a Senate leadership position in generations, and told him what was going on. I'm reading their hand, Everett, LBJ said, I don't want to get this in the campaign. This is treason! LBJ continued, I can identify them because I know who's doing this. I don't want to identify it - I think it would shock America if a principled candidate was playing with a source like this on a matter this important. Everett Dirksen promised to contact Nixon personally and try to put a stop to it, and in later conversations reported back to LBJ that Nixon wouldn't even discuss it with him. General Thi?u dug in his heels, the war continued, Humphrey lost, and Nixon won the election. This is historical fact. So, why doesn't every American know that Nixon committed treason in 1968 to win the
Re: [Biofuel] Anonymous, Karl Rove and 2012 Election Fix?
lol, no worries, keith. tom hartmann's been hitting this issue on his radio program, too. i wondered if he'd put the lbj stuff in writing (thanks again for doing the legwork). i wish I had the time to follow his work more closely because he's quite good. as it is, if i'm lucky i get to hear a part of his radio slot once or twice a week. oh, well, it is what it is. . . . On Nov 22, 2012 4:48 PM, Keith Addison ke...@journeytoforever.org wrote: Hi Chris ha, i was about to post this one. Please don't let that discourage you! Follow-up below. All best Keith an investigation into the '04 ohio election results was opened, but stalled and was then dropped (i'm not clear on why). it was then picked up by some attorneys (again, somewhat murky: what was their competence? haven't had a chance yet to try and dig for these details) who, it seems, may have been on the verge of 'flipping' the IT guy at the center of all this. he had allegedly been threatened if he didn't take the fall. so these attorneys inform the relevant govt attorneys' offices of the need to give this guy protection. not much later, he dies in a small aircraft accident (shades of paul wellstone). these stories are linked in the tom hartmann article. anyway, a new twist on old news. . . . On Nov 22, 2012 10:55 AM, Keith Addison ke...@journeytoforever.org wrote: Believe it or not... http://truth-out.org/news/**item/12845-anonymous-karl-** rove-and-2012-election-fixhttp://truth-out.org/news/item/12845-anonymous-karl-rove-and-2012-election-fix Anonymous, Karl Rove and 2012 Election Fix? Monday, 19 November 2012 16:02 By Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks , The Daily Take | News Analysis At around 11:25 pm EST on election night, Karl Rove knew something had gone terribly wrong. snip http://truth-out.org/news/**item/12871-why-anonymous-** claims-about-election-rigging-**cant-be-ignoredhttp://truth-out.org/news/item/12871-why-anonymous-claims-about-election-rigging-cant-be-ignored Why Anonymous' Claims about Election-Rigging Can't Be Ignored Tuesday, 20 November 2012 15:18 By Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks, The Daily Take | News Analysis As laid out in the previous article, Anonymous, Karl Rove and the 2012 Election Fix?, it's possible that Karl Rove used SmartTECH's servers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to flip the vote totals in Ohio in 2004 and thus steal the election that year for George W. Bush - and just as possible that he tried to do the same thing this year on Romney's behalf but was thwarted by the hacktivist group Anonymous. Many people have responded to these claims with a variation on: That's impossible. A presidential candidate committing treason? That would never happen, and, if it did, it would be front-page news. Everybody would know about it, right? Wrong. Consider some simple history. In 1952 Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower won the presidency - and there's not a hint of scandal associated with that election. Maybe that's because he supported a 91% top marginal income tax rate on the rich and approved of very popular New Deal programs like Social Security and unemployment benefits. As he told his brother in a letter in 1954, Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these thingsŠa few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid. But Eisenhower was the last legitimately elected Republican president. Richard Nixon, who won the 1968 election against Vice President Hubert Humphrey, followed Eisenhower. At the time, the Vietnam War was raging, millions of students were in the streets, and President Lyndon Johnson, throughout 1968, was working desperately to bring a negotiated end to that war. He'd gotten both the North and the South Vietnamese to agree to terms of peace, and, by late September, there was only a meeting in Paris to seal the deal. And then the CIA brought LBJ a wiretap they'd intercepted between the Nixon for President Campaign and the office of the President of South Vietnam, Nguy?n V?n Thi?u. Nixon basically told them that if they refused to go to the peace talks, or at least refused to go along with the peace agreement Johnson had worked out with them, then Nixon would give them a much better deal after the election. LBJ was furious. This was treason, and because he could listen to the CIA phone intercepts, he knew that Richard Nixon was at the heart of it. So he called the senior Republican in the US Senate, Everett Dirksen, one of the most honorable men to hold a Senate leadership position in generations, and told him what was going on. I'm reading their hand, Everett, LBJ said, I
