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steal votes
Two words
Mike Connell
and now down memory lane
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/25/the-intriguing-death-of-t_n_153518.html
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At 3:31 PM Friday, December 19, Michael L. Connell, a top Internet consultant for the Republican National Committee and for the Bush and McCain presidential campaigns, left Washington from the small airport in College Park, Md. Alone at the helm of a single engine Piper Saratoga, Connell's flight plan anticipated arrival at his hometown Akron-Canton Airport in a little over two hours, at 5:43 PM.
Instead, about three miles short of the Akron-Canton Airport, Connell's plane crashed to the ground in an upscale section of Lake Township, killing Connell instantly. "I was standing in the kitchen and I looked out the window and all I saw was fire," Taylor Fano told The Akron Beacon Journal. "It took out the flagpole and the cement blocks surrounding the flagpole . . . . It skidded across the driveway and right in-between a line of pine trees and a small fence around an in-ground pool."
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the accident and has not yet filed a report, but there was no immediate evidence of wrong-doing or sabotage.
Many in the blogosphere have called for further investigation of the crash, suggesting that Connell was about to provide crucial information in the case of alleged vote fraud in the 2004 Ohio presidential contest, and that that information would implicate Karl Rove and others in the Bush administration. [see update below]
drm604
(16,230 posts)This one... well, I remain skeptical on principal; but damn it's hard not to suspect foul play on this one.
malaise
(269,157 posts)Just Days Before Presidential Election?
http://www.bradblog.com/?cat=403
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)You just shed some more light on several other strings on DU related to ReThuglican election fraud, yesterday and today.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025748099
I could not remember Connell's company affiliations, that it was ES&S. Interestingly, ES&S purchased Diebold's alias Premier Election Solutions on September 3, 2009.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_Systems_%26_Software
malaise
(269,157 posts)to Ohio and Rmoney.
drm604
(16,230 posts)How can I not be suspicious of things like that? Uncertified software! How was no one ever prosecuted for this?
I'm a software engineer and I'm against voting on electronic computers. There's simply no way to verify the vote count.
Blue Owl
(50,487 posts)Pay no attention to the ham behind the curtain...
malaise
(269,157 posts)to watch them and not me
PeoViejo
(2,178 posts)In case you never make it home.
The Boys play for keeps and you are just Cannon Fodder.