Did Republicans sieze control of Ohio election servers in 2004? by KiTA [Subscribe]
Tue Apr 24, 2007 at 12:13:40 PM PDT
Update: Looks like someone else was way ahead of me. That's what I get for blogging during my lunch. ;)
Here's an odd one.
Netcraft is a website that tracks IP adresses, server software, etc. They basically keep a running snapshot of the internet, it's servers, and it's trends.
Well, someone recently noticed something extremely fishy that happened in early November, 2004 (and later, in April 2006). Ohio's Secretary of State's website suddenly, without warning and with no reason, suddenly switched servers to the same hosting company that runs the RNC shell-game email server, http://gwb43.com.
The IP address was changed to a IP block that is reserved for RNC use, 64.203.96.0 – 64.203.111.255. The server software even changed from "unknown" (used when a IT person properly secures the website) to "Windows 2000" (used when an IT person is only technically such).
So. Anyone wanna tackle why the RNC suddenly took control of the Elections server for Ohio 2004, out of the blue, right before an election?