Reply #241: There can't be a man in the middle theft of an election

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The results come from precincts which are closely watched. The data is made public and if somebody changed precinct results he'd surely get caught.

If one were to steal the election, they would have to slip something into the master code for all the election tabulators in each precinct. A company called Triad handled things at the precinct level. Connell's company had nothing to do with it.

Arnebeck subpoenaed Connell under the wild assertion that it was possible that somebody from Triad confided information about the fix to Connell. Arnebeck based that supposition on the fact that the companies worked on a project together and that both the owners had similar religious convictions, and a few other things just as weak as that.

There is no credible possibility that Connell could have had anything to do with an Ohio election fix. Thus, it makes no sense that Karl Rove would threaten Connell, since Connell wasn't even involved and knew nothing. When Connell did finally testify that's what he told the court, that he didn't know a thing about it at all.

Its amazing that the court even forced Connell to testify at all. Part of Arnebeck's strategy to get him there involved a hypothetical about Connell planting trojans in the computer systems that could be used to steal the 2008 election. The Secretary of State's office said they don't even use Connell's software anymore.

I told people here back in 2004 that you can't steal an election by manipulating central tallies. Raw Story consulted with a computer expert with Arnebeck's supposed diagram of how the crime was committed. The computer expert said the same thing I said. You can't fix an election that way.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Documents_reveal_how_Ohio_routed_2004_1031.html