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Hacking our Democracy, 2008.
October 29, 2008 11:47 AM

Although it looks like Obama is on his way to becoming our 44th president, the actual results might turn out very different from the exit polls. It seems like the same players who were around in 2000 and 2004 that cast doubt on the results then are back now.

Begin by watching the interview below by Amy Goodman of "DemocracyNow!" of Mark Crispin Miller, Professor of Media Ecology at NYU, and author of "Loser Take All," his book on the election fraud of 2000 and 2004:

Now watch this segment of an interview of Steven Spoonamore, GOP operative and life-long Republican-turned-whistle-blower, talking about his connections with Mike Connell, the RNC's IT guru. Particularly disturbing is Spoonamore's contention that on election night 2004, Connell's company sent the results to a central tabulator in Tennessee run by to a company called SmarTech (which just happened to host those disputed emails from the White House that were subpoeaned by Congress) before then sending them back to Ohio:

You can watch the entire Spoonamore interview at this link.

ePluribus Media first broke this story last year and you can read the entire story here. Mike Connell's company, New Media Communications, was also the host company for the Swift Boaters back in 2004, conclusive evidence that he's a total partisan hack.

In addition, Raw Story has this narrative fairly summarized at their site, too:

According to Spoonamore's Sept. 17 affidavit, the "computer placement, in the middle of the network, is a defined type of attack." Spoonamore describes this as a "Man in the Middle Attack" or MIM.

"It is a common problem in the banking settlement space," he writes. "A criminal gang will introduce a computer into the outgoing electronic systems of a major retail mall, or smaller branch office of a bank. They will capture the legitimate transactions and then add fraudulent charges to the system for their benefit."

"Any time all information is directed to a single computer for consolidation, it is possible, and in fact likely, that single computer will exploit the information for some purpose," he adds. "In the case of Ohio 2004, the only purpose I can conceive for sending all county vote tabulations to a GOP managed Man-in-the-Middle site in Chattanooga before sending the results onward to the Sec. of State, would be to hack the vote at the MIM."

But what does all this have to do with the election next week?

More recently, Newsweek's Michael Isikoff has revealed that John McCain's presidential campaign paid nearly a million dollars for web services to a firm called 3eDC, created and partly owned by McCain campaign manager Rick Davis. According to an archived version of a 3eDC webpage from 2007, that firm's five "strategic partners" included not only Connell's New Media Communications but also Campaign Solutions -- a firm run by Connell's sometimes-partner, Rebecca Donatelli -- and a component of SmarTech called AirNet.

In fact, Donatelli is mentioned in today's Washington Post article attacking Obama's internet fundraising efforts:

R. Rebecca Donatelli, who handles online contributions for the McCain operation and the RNC, said security measures have been standard in the GOP nominee's fundraising efforts throughout the campaign.

And last - but definitely not least - Brad Friedman over at his blog, BradBlog, has much, much more on this...

Stay tuned to see if indeed this election is stolen, too...


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