Before I get all lathered up over Ohio SOS / GOP servers, IT support please?!

[Pacifist Patriot]

I am not what you would call a techie. Consider it a good day when both my computer and my printer do what I politely ask them to do. However, I do have a business site hosted at NameSecure. If someone else also hosts at NameSecure would our respective businesses reflect upon one another?

I'm trying to figure out why the Ohio election results and the GOP buying server space from the same company indicates a conspiracy in and of itself.

Who owns the servers? If THAT company is owned by the GOP or by big GOP donors or operatives than I'm inclined to be outraged. What is the story here? Are they linked in a damning manner?

Thanks!

[robinlynne]

1. The official results the world was watching were supposed to be hosted by the state of ohio.

In fact, they were not. As we watched the OFFICIAL results, we were really getting them from a private server. A server from the exact same company as all the gop servers and websites.
These results were supposedly furnished by the state. not by a private company.

[lonestarnot]

2. And so for what robinlynne said,

you should get outraged.

[TacticalPeek]

3. Look at it as a special GOP switcheroo, just for election 2004 AND 2006.

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.

http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/07/04/24/1735213.shtml

Ken Blackwell Outsources Ohio Election Results to GOP Internet Operatives, Again
by luaptifer
Tue Nov 07, 2006 at 11:53:14 AM EST

http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/story/2006/11/7/115314/922

[sandnsea]

4. They have their own server(s)

Which serve many internet operations and web sites.

You host your web site from a company that has a bunch of servers, and kindly puts your web site somewhere amongst them all.

Your hosting company may also provide several servers to the RNC, but I guarantee you that the RNC is not sharing server space with you or the local pta or the kid down the street with his skateboard site.

It really is shocking to me that any government agency used actual servers of a political party - if that's what happened. It is kind of a coinkydink that of aaallllll the web companyes in the world, they chose the exact same ones.

[L. Coyote]

5. Always watch the unseen hand, not the one the magician wants you to watch!!

"I'm trying to figure out why the Ohio election results and the GOP buying server space from the same company indicates a conspiracy in and of itself."

It does not. I just do not understand why this is an issue, unles it is intended to distract from the actual fraud. Why are there people pointing to this non-issue? Is it to distract from the real problems with the 2004 election, like the evidence of vote-switching before the vote was counted or reported.

When at the magic show, always watch the unseen hand, not the one the magician wants you to watch!!

Simply put, the Ohio network was not sufficient to handle election night traffic given the focus on Ohio. What may be wrong with this situation is Blackwell's favoritism. But, the recent talk about Rove posting his own counts is worse than pure falsehood. And it is just plain idiotic to see people swallow such bull, hook, line, and sinker, without the slightest sign of critical reasoning.

[ClassWarrior]

6. Then I guess it calls for major investigation, doesn't it? Please help...

...spread a little sunshine on this.

NGU.