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BREAKING: Federal Judge Compels GOP IT Guru Mike Connell To Give Deposition in Ohio '04 Election Case (just 24 hours prior to This years election)

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The Republican IT guru, recently described as a "high tech Forrest Gump" for his proclivity to be "at the scene" of so many troubling elections since 2000, and even at the heart of the "lost" White House email scandal, has been ordered by a federal judge to appear for an under-oath deposition next Monday in Ohio.

The BRAD BLOG has learned that Mike Connell, the Republican IT guru whose company, GovTech Solutions, created Ohio's 2004 election results computer network, appeared in federal court today, as compelled, and has been ordered to appear for his deposition on Monday, November 3, just 24 hours before Election Day 2008.

The issues in the King Lincoln v. Blackwell suit are complex, but in a nutshell, some Ohio voters filed a lawsuit alleging voting rights violations and election irregularities in the 2004 Presidential election in the Buckeye State. Taking the sworn deposition of Connell, the man who set up the computers for reporting election results, and re-routing them through his company's own Tennessee servers late on the night of the '04 election, has been a high priority for Election Integrity advocates and attorneys in Ohio.

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nearing

In related news, our friends at RAW STORY have an article today headlined "Documents reveal how Ohio routed 2004 voting data through company that hosted external Bush Administration email accounts." That company was SmarTech, Inc., and the architecture for the 2004 election results reporting system in Ohio has been at the heart of this case.

As reported by RAW's Larisa Alexandrovna today:

Newly obtained computer schematics provide further detail of how electronic voting data was routed during the 2004 election from Ohio’s Secretary of State’s office through a partisan Tennessee web hosting company. … The flow chart shows how voting information was transferred from Ohio to SmarTech Inc., a Chattanooga Tennessee IT company known for its close association with the Republican Party, before the 2004 election results were displayed online.

See her story for more, including the schematics for both the '04 and '06 web servers in Ohio. Of course, we'll continue to update this story as the case proceeds...

  • 5 votes
Reply#1 - Sat Nov 1, 2008 3:02 PM EDT
Blearc

Hopefully Monday isn't too late.  But if Ohio goes to McCain here's enough to contest the vote.

  • 2 votes
Reply#2 - Sat Nov 1, 2008 3:09 PM EDT
JoulesBeef

it's kidna scary cause the more corrupt your believe the gop was in stealing elections.. eh more desperate you have to believe they are to prevent this one from going to obama and more importantly a dem DOJ. Heck even bush is trying to get some 200k early voters votes thrown out.

  • 2 votes
Reply#3 - Sat Nov 1, 2008 3:33 PM EDT
F-3

Great seed Nearing! We have to fight this with all we've got! We can not let the republicans steal another election from the voters. They must be stopped and prosecuted!

  • 2 votes
Reply#4 - Sat Nov 1, 2008 4:24 PM EDT
Pacific Northwest Blogger

Newly obtained computer schematics provide further detail of how electronic voting data was routed during the 2004 election from Ohio’s Secretary of State’s office through a partisan Tennessee web hosting company. … The flow chart shows how voting information was transferred from Ohio to SmarTech Inc., a Chattanooga Tennessee IT company known for its close association with the Republican Party, before the 2004 election results were displayed online.

I feel sick to my stomach for American democracy

  • 2 votes
Reply#5 - Sat Nov 1, 2008 5:20 PM EDT
upswing

I appreciate (and share) the outrage.  but, if democracy were a child, the United Sates citizenry would have been charged with abandonment decades ago.

It seems a little dopey for so many people to get so perturbed about some Neocon scum blatantly and continually stealing elections when the majority of them didn' even take the time to vote...

Either we care about democracy or we don't. We can't have it both ways.

  • 2 votes
Reply#6 - Sat Nov 1, 2008 9:06 PM EDT
Blearc

I definately agree and no matter the outcome of this election, we need to keep paying attention.  And luckily some of us have found folks like nearing to do the research we always don't have time to.

  • 2 votes
#6.1 - Sat Nov 1, 2008 9:20 PM EDT
upswing

Blearc:

we need to keep paying attention

Amen.

  • 2 votes
#6.2 - Sun Nov 2, 2008 1:10 AM EDT
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Dan Hallo, aka, Zoilus

Connell is a computer genius who Daddy Bush introduced to Karl Rove and Jeb Bush way before Dubya took the White House. Connell created the first GOP website, controlled the election computers in Florida 2000 and Ohio 2004, launched www.georgebush.com, and has been involved in virtually every election scandal the past decade – NH phone jamming, Swift Boat Veterans Against Kerry, false phone and direct mail scripting, WH email scandal, US Attorney scandal, and others. His companies control the majority of GOP IT work, and the scary thing is that his company GovTech Solutions is now behind the firewall of key committees in Congress, including Judiciary, Intelligence, Ways and Means, and Administration.

Investigate Why Bush/Rove IT Expert Mike Connell Asked How to Destroy White House Emails

WASHINGTON, Oct 23, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Reporter Rebecca Abrahams wrote this week at Huffington Post that on October 11, 2006, longtime Bush/Rove IT expert Michael Connell met with cyber security expert Stephen Spoonamore to learn how to destroy data on White House computer hard drives (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rebecca-abrahams/white-house-emails-the-mi_b_136653.html). This was during the height of the United States Attorney scandal and during the tenure of Connell's former employee, David Almacy, as director of the White House Internet and E-Communications Director.

brahams quotes from Spoonamore's emails which reference notes taken at the time of the meeting. Connell was accompanied at the meeting by Randy Cole, the former President of Connell's company, GovTech Solutions, now running for Ohio Congressional seat 41. When Spoonamore realized that Connell and Cole were asking how to destroy White House data, he terminated the conversation and told them that what they were asking about was illegal.
Attorney General Michael Mukasey recently appointed prosecutor Nora Dannehy to investigate whether criminal charges should be brought against those involved in the US Attorney scandal. That investigation should include what role and knowledge Michael Connell and Randy Cole have regarding the destruction of White House computer data, and, as Abrahams suggests, whether Connell knows where the White House email backup is located.

This has been for the nay-sayers out there. If the Wall Street Journal has the story, then I think it's credible.

  • 3 votes
Reply#7 - Sun Nov 2, 2008 12:34 AM EDT
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