"Netcraft Shows Smartech Running Ohio Election Servers" from Slashdot - April 24, 2007
http://politics.slashdot.org/...
Posted by kdawson on Tuesday April 24, @02:02PM
from the something-rotten-in-the-state-of-Ohio dept.
goombah99 writes "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?"
Perhaps they were only just testing?
But when you also add this:
http://www.rollingstone.com/...
Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted -- enough to have put John Kerry in the White House.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR
Maybe it was not just testing? Who was the US Attorney for Ohio in 2004?
UPDATE from comments by TheSilence
Basically, the same company that hosts the RNC email server was hosting the server that counted the votes in OH in 2004. Pretty fishy to me. Get the contracts out, let's start sending subpoenas to this company and find out how they operate.