Netcraft Shows RNC Running Ohio Election Servers

[LoZoccolo]

"Netcraft is showing that an event happened in the Ohio 2004 election that is difficult to explain. The Secretary of State's website, which handles election reporting, normally is directed to an Ohio-based IP address hosted by the Ohio Supercomputer Center. On Nov. 3 2004, Netcraft shows the website pointing out of state to a server owned by Smartech Corp. According to the American Registry on Internet Numbers, Smartech's block of IP addresses 64.203.96.0 – 64.203.111.255 encompasses the entire range of addresses owned by the Republican National Committee. Smartech hosted the recently notorious gbw43.com domain used from the White House in apparent violation of the Presidential Records Act, from which thousands of White House emails vanished. Can anyone suggest a good explanations for this seemingly dubious election-eve transfer?"

http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/07/04/24/1735213.shtml

Slashdot is a blog, so you'll find more links at the site to follow. It is dedicated more to technological issues than political ones.

Some of you might remember that I've actually been very skeptical of the idea that Ohio was tampered with in a manner widespread and effective enough to swing the state, but I found this piece interesting.

[aquart]

1. Oh. What a surprise.

Gee. Golly. Who'da thunk it?

[MessiahRp]

3. Exactly

Nothing we find out now surprises me one bit. Unbelievable the lengths these pricks have gone to in securing their power.

Rp

[Norquist Nemesis]

2. Well this gets my vote, and I can actually see it!!!

unlike "other" voting machines.

[Greyskye]

4. color me surprised

NOT! :puke:

:kick: & R!

[L. Coyote]

5. WRONG. FALSE. This is a blatant lie and needs to be corrected.

What the H**L are people thinking. Get the facts first. WHO is promulgating this CRAP?

SEE this thread for some FACTS:

Email-Gate FACTS: Felons, georgewbush.com, gwb43.com , et. al.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x523978

SEE this thread for comments on the recent article:

GET REAL: Steven Rosenfeld and Bob Fitrakis as "coincidence theorists"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x259620#277154

....... This is just beyond ridiculous. Only those with no critical reasoning will not see the lie in this statement.

Laws of the State of Ohio created the system, the People of Ohio own it, and Boards of Election operated it. GET REAL!!

[LoZoccolo]

6. .

[EVDebs]

7. Netcraft, Smartech, RNC...do any of these co's have ties to Ptech ?

Ptech
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptech

Check notable clientele. White House, DOJ, FAA, Air Force... I wouldn't put it past them. The company is now re-named GoAgile, BTW.

[jsamuel]

8. Nov 3rd wasn't "election-eve" it was the day after the election

[bananas]

10. netcraft is in UK, Nov 3 GMT morning is Nov 2 EST evening

So it really is election eve.

[jsamuel]

11. no, then it was election day

[philly_bob]

13. Question of time of Nov. 3 hosting change came up in related thread.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=471399&mesg_id=471399

No clear answer yet.

[philly_bob]

15. Right. Time zone difference could explain divergence.

Thanks, bananas.

Netcraft is in Bath, England, five hours behind East Coast time.

So if "Nov. 3" means, say, 12:15 AM GMT, Nov. 3, then that could be 7:15 PM EST on Nov. 2, which is just right for adjusting vote totals.

But that's a big IF. We have no time on the Netcraft read-out.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

9. It's not meaningful.

Thoroughly debunked by the comments to the slashdot article.

[Recursion]

12. RNC had half a class C network; OH wasn't in that block

Ohio: 64.203.98.137
RNC: 64.203.98.0 - 64.203.98.127

SmartTech is a hosting company. They provide virtualized servers to host websites (and other services) on. The OH SoS was a Republican and had probably dealt with SmartTech before. So when he needed a hosting company for election.sos.state.oh.us he went with them.

This is like saying "The Ohio Secretary of State used the same catering company on election night as the RNC"

[aquart]

16. Did they lose five million sandwiches?

[Extend a Hand]

17. LOL n/t

[driver8]

14. So that explains what Turd Blossom was doing with all of those

computers at the Whitehouse on election night...

Jesus...will this shit heap ever end?