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Connell, Rove and the GOP Boys, Positioned for McCain?

The filing of “document hold” notices targeting Karl Rove and the Chamber of Commerce announced on July 17 by Ohio Attorney Cliff Arnebeck has focused attention on Mike Connell, CEO of New Media Communications (and a key figure in several other IT companies), as instrumental in significant irregularities of the Ohio vote in the 2004 presidential election.

Mike Connell built the non-partisan State of Ohio Election Night Results reporting system which, in real time, tracked the final Ohio vote tallies for its citizens. Yet that very same Mike Connell, in what could appear to be a conflict of interest, also created and ran the 2004 George Bush and Ken Blackwell websites as well as the Ohio state GOP site.

Mike Connell: IT Guru
Mike Connell is the RNC’s IT guru connected to many websites of Ohio, Florida and the Federal governments. He is now believed to have been under the direction of Karl Rove during the contested elections of 2000 and 2004. In the current cycle, Karl Rove joined John McCain’s campaign in March 2008 while Connell reportedly began laying his groundwork for it after August 2006. If allegations are true, what happened in 2000 and 2004 is merely the warm up act to what’s in store for 2008.
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IT Security Expert Stephen Spoonamore Comments
Stephen Spoonamore, an IT security expert who participated in the July 17 Arnebeck press conference, speculated that such a delay in reporting the election results in Ohio was long enough for operatives to ‘tune’ last-minute results from fourteen Ohio counties to a Bush victory. He believes that Connell was not directly involved in the fraud that Spoonamore speculates used a delay in the stream of realtime results reported through Ohio’s Election Night Results server, apparently by way of Tennessee.

Spoonamore also speculates that, despite the detour’s being Connell’s design, others took advantage of the system’s slight delay to adjust or ‘tune’ the totals of twelve late-reporting counties based upon the totals already reported in the rest of the State of Ohio. More