We've been hearing about SC justices with their undisclosed conflicts of interest & "coincidentally"

[diva77]

favorable rulings on behalf of those conflicts...

There is clearly something VERY WRONG with having rethuglican SOS's meeting IN SECRET with the Heritage Foundation. And by the way, Ken Blackwell (Ohio SOS 1999-2007) was a guest speaker at their gathering. This is in reference to my previous OP

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=17866741

about this:

https://documented.net/reporting/rightwing-groups-join-forces-to-woo-election-officials-in-republican-states

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Never forget what happened in 2004 while Blackwell was SOS:
https://truthout.org/articles/new-court-filing-reveals-how-the-2004-ohio-presidential-election-was-hacked--

New Court Filing Reveals How the 2004 Ohio Presidential Election Was Hacked
By Bob Fitrakis, TheFreePress July 25, 2011

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A new filing in the King Lincoln Bronzeville v. Blackwell case includes a copy of the Ohio Secretary of State election production system configuration that was in use in Ohio’s 2004 presidential election when there was a sudden and unexpected shift in votes for George W. Bush. The filing also includes the revealing deposition of the late Michael Connell. Connell served as the IT guru for the Bush family and Karl Rove. Connell ran the private IT firm GovTech that created the controversial system that transferred Ohio’s vote count late on election night 2004 to a partisan Republican server site in Chattanooga, Tennessee owned by SmarTech. That is when the vote shift happened, not predicted by the exit polls, that led to Bush’s unexpected victory. Connell died a month and a half after giving this deposition in a suspicious small plane crash.
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[CincyDem]

1. I had the pleasure of having Blackwell seated next to me at a local high end restaurant.

We, of course, asked to be seated elsewhere immediately. What I’ll always remember is that when we told the server, I’m pretty sure he knew exactly why and said, rather loudly, “it would be a pleasure”.

[diva77]

3. Sounds like you found a server in his orbit

that wasn't corrupted!! (pun intended)

Thanks for sharing your story.

[JudyM]

2. Blackwell was dirty. I was a GOTV volunteer in Cleveland in the final days.

Folks personally told me they’d received calls from his office telling them they couldn’t vote, and would be turned away, among other things, “because my brother’s in jail,” “because I moved since the last election,” … his office was effectively intimidating people and he got away with it.

[diva77]

4. And in the spirit of republican corruption, he is an esteemed speaker at a Heritage Foundation

funded event for rethuglican Secretaries of State. Probably mentoring them in his tactics.

Is there a repository of testimonials about Ohio GOTV volunteers' experiences from 2004?

[JudyM]

5. I don't know of one.

We so badly need federal oversight of elections. And look at what’s happening in NC today with gerrymandering, etc. just out of control cheating.

[diva77]

6. At the very least I hope ProPublica looks into dark money behind

their corrupt partisan gerrymandering decision -- perhaps those backing the gerrymander have had interactions with the Heritage Fdn.



Thinking out loud...connecting the dots in NC -- their SOS is a Dem -- Elaine Marshall -- unlikely do be dealing with dark money from the Heritage Fdn. Therefore, other tactics such as gerrymandering are needed for rethuglicans to cheat elections there.

[JudyM]

7. Propublica needs to be enlarged by a power of about 100.

[diva77]

8. Yes!!!