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New Court Filing Reveals How the 2004 Ohio Presidential Election Was Hacked

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41 pointsjsavimbi8 comments

The post felt like a tabloid piece -- it does not show that the Presidental Election was hacked, but rather that it could have been hacked. It then goes on to say things like "Connell died a month and a half after giving this deposition in a suspicious small plane crash" seemingly to imply that he was murdered, but stops before going any deeper than that.

Finally, lets look at who wrote this -- a member of the Co-Counsel in the King Lincoln vs Blackwell case, not exactly the most unbiased of people.

For what it's worth, the plaintiffs claimed to have received a tip that Mike Connell was being threatened for providing testimony against Karl Rove. That testimony was provided in a sworn affidavit. So one can speculate as to whether or not the anonymous tip was a legitimate threat, but the concept you criticize has a basis in the events surrounding this case.

The article says that the system architecture existed for no other plausible purpose than altering the data, that exit polling supports that the data was altered, and that public employees were not allowed access to the data collection process.

Further, Connell died in a plain crash after the lead plaintiff's attorney reported death threats against him to the US AG.

This is not a big surprise to anyone who was paying attention during the election. However most of the public did not pay attention, and the media failed to report a lot of what happened.

Here is a simple rule of thumb. Exit polling is an independent confirmation of the fairness of elections. Exit polling has been proven accurate in every advanced democracy except one. Agreement between exit polling and the official vote tally is widely regarded as a litmus test for fair elections in third world countries. It should be so regarded in the one advanced democracy where there are regularly large deviations between exit polls and reported results.

That outlier is, of course, the USA. :-(

Exit polling has been proven accurate...

Have a source/citation for that?

> the media failed to report

9/11 and its consequences sold so well to a demoralized public that they went to sleep for the better part of a decade and allowed deviant personalities to take over and shape their agenda as news. Personally, I see no other punishment fitting than allowing all of their outlest to go out of business.

This title is completely misleading. This assumes that the election was hacked, and the "court evidence" presents a theory about how the presumed hack could have happened.

All this article proves is that not all conspiracy nuts are right-wingers.

Indeed, the title did not deliver on its promise; all we learned was that it would have been straightforward to hack the election.

But in a better world, even that would be outrageous.

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