Republican computer expert Mike Connell, who has been implicated as being at the center of vote fraud in Florida in 2000 and in Ohio in 2004, has been ordered by an Ohio judge to appear for a deposition on Monday, the day before the election!
This takes out one of the GOP’s most important players – at the most crucial time imaginable!
The full story is available on The Brad Blog here.
The BRAD BLOG has learned that Mike Connell, the Republican IT guru whose company, GovTech Solutions, created Ohio's 2004 election results computer network appeared in federal court today, as compelled, and has been ordered to appear for his deposition on Monday, November 3, just 24 hours before Election Day 2008.
Today's court order came after a contentious hearing, at which Connell was present. The hearing was part of a long-standing voting rights violations lawsuit, King Lincoln v. Blackwell,
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The issues in the King Lincoln v. Blackwell suit are complex, but in a nutshell, some Ohio voters filed a lawsuit alleging voting rights violations and election irregularities in the 2004 Presidential election in the Buckeye State. Taking the sworn deposition of Connell, the man who set up the computers for reporting election results, and re-routing them through his company's own Tennessee servers late on the night of the '04 election, has been a high priority for Election Integrity advocates and attorneys in Ohio.
But it gets even better – this is one lawsuit that Karl Rove is going to have a hard time avoiding
The attorneys in the case have said that Connell's testimony may well lead to the subpoenaing and under-oath questioning of Karl Rove, who, they say, would be unable to use Executive Privilege as an excuse to avoid such a subpoena in a civil RICO case...
According to someone who has seen a videoe of Connell's being served the subpoena for the hearing today, "There's a point in the video we captured when Connell's realizing he'd just been served notice of a detour to a different world. I see him trying to absorb that into his future with a sideways focus on a distant horizon before he folds and pockets the notice. It's hard not to be sympathetic at that point."
A fuller discussion of Connell, Rove, and their vote fraud operations, is available here on epluribusmedia.net.