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Election Watchdog Group Offers $20,000 Reward: Calls On All Computer
Scientists, IT Specialists and Hackers to Monitor 2010 Election
Tabulators for Illegal Manipulations
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the election
watchdog group ProtectOurElections.org announced a $20,000 reward for
any computer scientist, IT specialist or hacker who can provide
definitive evidence that vote tabulation results in the 2010 midterm
elections were manipulated in such a way that the results changed the
legitimate winner running for federal office. The information must
result in an arrest and conviction. The announcement is posted on the
ProtectOurElections.org website and includes a reward poster.
"Evidence from past elections has pointed to possible tabulation
manipulation by Karl Rove and GOP controlled operatives that may have
changed the results of elections such as Ohio 2004 and Alabama 2002,"
said the group's attorney and spokesman Kevin Zeese. "In fact, on
election night 2004, the Ohio Secretary of State election servers were
inexplicably re-routed to the GOP controlled servers at Smartech in
Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the results suddenly flipped from John
Kerry to George Bush. Bush's IT guru Mike Connell, who set up that
IT network for Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, was later killed
in a mysterious plane crash after he was subpoenaed to talk about the
matter. And just a few weeks ago, computer scientists hacked into the
Washington, DC computer servers, took control of the election results,
and watched as hackers from Iran and China tried to manipulate the
results. Clearly, it is easy for bad guys to hack into these servers
and subvert the will of the people."
Tipsters have warned ProtectOurElections.org that there will be
attempts to manipulate the tabulation results in the upcoming
election. The group is particularly concerned with possible
manipulations through the Smartech servers because of its strong ties
to Karl Rove and other principals in his American Crossroads group,
which is spending up to $75 million in secret money to elect
Republicans. However, the reward offer covers all election tabulation
severs across the country and is non-partisan.
ProtectOurElections.org notes that tabulation servers are not supposed
to be connected to the Internet and therefore urges computer experts
to spread a wide net and monitor election-server traffic in real time
to detect hacks, intrusions and improper access.
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