The GOP's cyber election hit squad

The Free Press -- Independent News Media - Election Issues

Did the most powerful Republicans in America have the computer capacity, software skills and electronic infrastructure in place on Election Night 2004 to tamper with the Ohio results to ensure George W. Bush's re-election?

The answer appears to be yes. There is more than ample documentation to show that on Election Night 2004, Ohio's "official" Secretary of State website %u2013 which gave the world the presidential election results %u2013 was redirected from an Ohio government server to a group of servers that contain scores of Republican web sites, including the secret White House e-mail accounts that have emerged in the scandal surrounding Attorney General Alberto Gonzales%u2019s firing of eight federal prosecutors.

Recent revelations have documented that the Republican National Committee (RNC) ran a secret White House e-mail system for Karl Rove and dozens of White House staffers. This high-tech system used to count and report the 2004 presidential vote%u2013 from server-hosting contracts, to software-writing services, to remote-access capability, to the actual server usage logs themselves %u2013 must be added to the growing congressional investigations.