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Subject: GOP whistleblower names Karl Rove in Ohio's 2004 election
theft
GOP whistleblower names Karl Rove in Ohio's 2004 election theft
"The entire U.S. election system is being programmed in secret," a
top computer-security expert charges, "with the complicity of a
number of powerful Republican operatives"
"The American people are afraid to confront the fact that there has
been (and still is) an extremely well coordinated effort by a small
group of people to rig elections and take control of the executive
branch."
by steveheller
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Ohio-Attorney-Files-Motion-by-steveheller-080718-804.html
Ohio Attorney Files Motion to Lift Stay in Ohio Case of King Lincoln
Bronzeville v Blackwell
At a press conference this morning in Columbus, Ohio, Cliff
Arnebeck, lead attorney for the plaintiffs in the case of King
Lincoln Bronzeville v. Blackwell, announced that he is filing a
motion to "lift the stay in the case [and] proceed with targeted
discovery in order to help protect the integrity of the 2008
election."
Arnebeck will also "be providing copies of document hold notices to
the U.S .Chamber Institute for Legal Reform and the U.S. Justice
Department for Karl Rove emails from the White House."
This case has the potential to put some of the most powerful people
in the country in jail, according to Arnebeck, as he was joined by a
well-respected, life-long Republican computer security expert who
charged that the red flags seen during Ohio's 2004 Presidential
Election would have been cause for "a fraud investigation in a bank,
but it doesn't when it comes to our vote."
"This entire system is being programmed in secret by programmers who
have no oversight by anybody," the expert charged, as Arnebeck
detailed allegations of complicity by a number of powerful GOP
operatives and companies who had unique access both to the election
results as reported in 2004, as well as to U.S. House and Senate
computer networks even today.
The presser was attended by some of the corporate-controlled media,
including the head of the Ohio AP bureau, the Columbus Dispatch, and
IndyMedia. Listening in by phone were ABC News, our friends from RAW
STORY, and me, your humble blogger. I recorded the presser, so I
have no links for the quotes in this post, but I transcribed them
word-for-word and can vouch for their accuracy.
One of the more delightful and interesting quotes comes from
Arnebeck, concerning what he expects to discover as the stay is
lifted: "[W]e anticipate Mr. Rove will be identified as having
engaged in a corrupt, ongoing pattern of corrupt activities
specifically affecting the situation here in Ohio."
According to Arnebeck, his expert witness, Stephen Spoonamore,
"works for credit card companies chasing data thieves, identity
thieves around the globe, and also consults with government agencies
including the Secret Service, the Pentagon, and the Federal Bureau
of Investigation in criminal matters. [He's] really one of the top,
and in fact the top private cop in the world on the subject of data
security.
"First, some background. The King Lincoln Bronzeville v. Blackwell
case was filed on August 31, 2006. At issue was "whether the rights,
privileges, and immunities guaranteed to Plaintiffs by the Civil
Rights Act, and the First, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth
Amendments to the U.S. Constitution have been violated by the past
and ongoing conduct of Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell in
connection with past elections in Ohio."
A stay was previously entered into on joint motion of the parties,
Ohio's Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner and the plaintiffs, to
support settlement discussions in the case. "At one point," Arnebeck
noted this morning, "this was interrupted when the Secretary wanted
to bring all the ballots that had been ordered preserved by Judge
Marbley, bring them in to one location. When the ballots came in,
there was significant omissions and reports of the destruction of
some of the ballots."
The BRAD BLOG reporter previously on some of some of the ballots
missing from 56 of Ohio's 88 counties, despite the federal court
order.
Arnebeck explained that part of the reason for the stay, at the
time, was to allow the Ohio Attorney General to proceed first, as
provided in Ohio House Bill 3 which states, in part:
...the attorney general may initiate criminal proceedings for
election fraud under section 3599.42 of the Revised Code which
results from a violation of any provision of Title XXXV of the
Revised Code, other than Chapter 3517. of the Revised Code,
involving voting, an initiative or referendum petition process, or
the conducting of an election, by presenting evidence of criminal
violations in question to the prosecuting attorney of any county in
which the violations may be prosecuted. If the prosecuting attorney
does not prosecute the violations within a reasonable time or
requests the attorney general to do so, the attorney general may
proceed with the prosecution of the violations with all of the
rights, privileges, and powers conferred by law on a prosecuting
attorney, including, but not limited to, the power to appear before
a grand jury and to interrogate witnesses before a grand jury.
Arnebeck said that the [Ohio] Attorney General's office said they
were ready to begin the investigation of the 2004 presidential
election in Ohio, and Arnebeck said he submitted a great deal of
material to them, including "Bob's [Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman's]
book on what happened in Ohio, documentation of the exit poll
discrepancy, [and] John Conyers' report to the Congress which was
the factual basis for the challenge to the electoral votes of the
Ohio vote in January of 2005."
About a month later, the [Ohio] Attorney General's office contacted
Arnebeck and asked him, "Who do you want to indict?"
Arnebeck explained that the AG's "concept of looking at this from a
criminal standpoint was not to convene a grand jury and cast the net
broadly and use the grand jury process to investigate and narrow the
focus into the question of who may have tampered with those votes.
But rather they wanted us to come to them with a more focused case."
<CONTINUES>
<snip>
Arnebeck plans to subpoena and depose GOP operative Michael (Mike)
L. Connell, who, as described by SourceWatch, is....
Chief Political Strategist and CEO of New Media Communications,
Inc., a Republican website development and internet services firm in
Richfield, OH.
New Media's GOP clients are a "'Who's Who' of Republican politics",
having provided campaign web services and Internet strategy for Bush-
Cheney 2000/2004, as well as Republicans such as Dick Armey, Spencer
Abraham for Senate 2000, Heather Wilson for Congress 2000/2002/2004,
Rick Santorum for Senate 2000/2006, and John Thune for Senate
2002/2004 to name just a few. New Media also designed GOP.com for
the Republican National Committee, RGA.org for the Republican
Governors Association, and between two and three dozen state GOP
sites.
According to Arnebeck, Connell "manages the information technology.
Interestingly, he's done this for the Bush campaigns of 2000 and
2004. Simultaneously, he was doing IT work for the State of Florida
in 2000."
And just think of this: here's a person who is an instrument of a
major presidential campaign simultaneously setting up the hosting of
the votes in the Ohio election."
[Currently, Connell is running the IT operations for the McCain
campaign. Isn't that a comforting thought...]
According to Arnebeck, "Mr. Connell also worked with various front
groups ... Starting in 2000 after the New Hampshire primary, there
was an unleashing of ese Washington-based lobbying groups that used
these phony grass-roots groups to attack candidates, supposedly
independently.
"We believe there is clear evidence of a coordinated campaign in
which Karl Rove is involved, in which Mr. Connell is an instrument. "
One of the more frightening aspects of Connell's work is that his
company, Gov Tech Solutions, was the first private company to be
allowed to put servers behind the firewall of the Congressional
computer systems. This led to him creating and managing several
powerful Committee IT networks, including those for the House
Intelligence Committee, the Ways and Means Committee, the Judiciary
Committee, the Ethics Committee, and the House Committee on Rules.
It is possible that the firewall was created with secret security
gaps that can be exploited to hack into any congressional computer.
If that has happened, every computer in any senate or congressional
office is subject to hacking by Bush/Republican operatives.
........
http://www.velvetrevolution.us/electionstrikeforce/
Steve Heller became an election integrity activist after the 2000
election debacle in Florida. In 2004, he became known to legions of
election protection activists as the "Diebold Whistle-blower" for
stealing and exposing legal documents proving Diebold was violating
California election laws by using illegal, uncertified software in
their voting machines.
He was charged with three felonies and eventually pleaded guilty to
one felony. At this time, he remains on probation.
Partly as a result of Steve's actions, in April 2004, former
California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley de-certified Diebold in
California for what he called their "fraudulent," "despicable," and
"deceitful behavior." His case is featured in the documentary
"Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections" by David Earnhardt.
In November of 2004, Steve went to Columbus, Ohio as a volunteer
with nonpartisan get-out-the-vote efforts. While working on election
day, he was appalled to see voter suppression techniques in action.
As Steve said, "I saw the modern day Jim Crow strutting up and down
the streets of inner city Columbus." What he witnessed that day made
him more determined than ever to bring to light the crimes against
the voters and against clean elections, crimes that undermine our
Republic.
Steve was honored to join with Brad Friedman of The BRAD BLOG in
consultations with Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) regarding Rep.
Kucinich's 35 Articles of Impeachment against George W. Bush. Steve
contributed research, documentation, and information which was used
in Article 29, "Conspiracy to Violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965."
Steve is very proud to have played a part in the creation of this
historic and important document. He is an election integrity blogger
for Velvet Revolution's Election Protection Strike Force. He lives
in Los Angeles with his wife and various dogs and cats.
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