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That time Karl Rove ordered GOP operative Jill Simpson to try to find sexually compromising info on Alabama’s Democratic Governor, Don Siegelman. Simpson found none, but.... 1/ https://tomdegan.blogspot.com/2008/03/sad-twisted-saga-of-don-siegelman.html
2/ Siegelman “lost” his 2002 bid for re-election even though he was initially declared victorious by a sizable marginin the race. But after everyone went home, 6k votes somehow shifted from Siegelman’s column to his GOP opponent’s column. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/10/1/392528/-
3/ “The original 19,070 vote total for Siegelman was given in a printout of Baldwin County votes that was provided to news organizations.. . But Capt. Marvin Ussery of the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Department said Siegelman’s numbers were lowered after the data cartridges...
4/ ... from voting machines were run through computers a second time because of a suspected error.” https://apnews.com/336c06179e9894dfc379a1044b124c53
5/ “In 2002, Republican Bob Riley narrowly beat Democrat Don Siegelman in the AL gubernatorial race when several thousand votes from Baldwin County...mysteriously switched from Siegelman to Riley when Dem observers left the polling place after midnight.” https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/11/could-voter-fraud-tilt-the-election-again
6/ Jill Simpson (whose conscience later got to her) says that, after Riley’s reported “win,” there was a conference call in which Riley operatives discussed threatening Siegelman w/ prosecution on trumped up charges to get him to DROP his recount request. https://www.thenation.com/article/whistleblowers-tale/
7/ That same day, Siegelman withdrew just recount request.
8/ They prosecuted and convicted him on trumped up charges regardless. He served many years in prison and was only recently released. https://tomdegan.blogspot.com/2008/03/sad-twisted-saga-of-don-siegelman.html
9/ “The frame-up of Siegelman and businessman Richard Scrushy is co crystal clear and blatant that 52 former state attorneys general from across America, both Republicans and Democrats, ... urged the US Congress to investigate the Bush administration's use of the US DOJ...
10/ ... rid themselves of a Democratic governor who 'they could not beat fair and square,' according to Grant Woods, former Republican Attorney General of Arizona & co-chair of the McCain for President leadership committee...
11/ ... Woods says that he has never seen a case with 'so many red flags pointing to injustice.'"
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12/ The voting machine vendor involved in Siegelman’s dubious loss? Apparently, ES&S, which put remote-access software in central tabulators (used to aggregate precinct totals) in 300 jurisdictions it refused to identify. https://freepress.org/article/voting-machine-maker-remote-access-feature-was-involved-alabamas-2002-governors-race-where
13/ “In the AL 2002 general election, machines made by [ES&S] flipped the governor’s race. Six thousand three hundred Baldwin County electronic votes mysteriously disappeared after the polls had closed and everyone had gone home.” - @BevHarrisWrites http://inthesetimes.com/site/mobile/article/sum_of_a_glitch/
14/ “Three months after the election, the vendor shrugged. ‘Something happened. I don’t have enough intelligence to say exactly what,’ said Mark Kelley of ES&S.”
15/ “When I began researching this story in October 2002, the media was reporting that electronic voting machines are fun and speedy, but I looked in vain for articles reporting that they are accurate. I discovered four magic words, ‘voting machines and glitch,’ ...
16/ . which, when entered into a search engine, yielded a shocking result: A staggering pile of miscounts was accumulating. These were reported locally but had never been compiled in a single place, so reporters were missing a disturbing pattern.”
17/ “I published a compendium of 56 documented cases in which voting machines got it wrong.
How do voting-machine makers respond to these reports? With shrugs. They indicate that their miscounts are nothing to be concerned about.“
How do voting-machine makers respond to these reports? With shrugs. They indicate that their miscounts are nothing to be concerned about.“
18/ “Except, of course, when it did.” Six examples in s tee shot below, again by @BevHarrisWrites. http://inthesetimes.com/site/mobile/article/sum_of_a_glitch/
19/ “Alabama TV Station Accused of Censoring a 60 Minutes Expose on the GOP’s Prosecution of Alabama’s Imprisoned Former Gov. Don Siegelman” - 2008 https://www.democracynow.org/2008/3/6/fcc_launches_probe_of_alabama_tv
20/ “I...believe that what happened here is that they targeted Don Siegelman bc they could not beat him fair & square. This is a Republican state, & he was the one Democrat they could never get rid of.” - Grant Woods, former Republican Attorney General, AZ https://www.democracynow.org/2008/3/6/fcc_launches_probe_of_alabama_tv
21/ “On February 21, just after Simpson began to leak what she knew about the phone conversation with the Alabama Bar Association, one of Siegelman’s lawyers and lawyers for Richard Scrushy, Simpson’s family home in Rainsville burned down.“ https://www.thenation.com/article/whistleblowers-tale/
22/ “A cursory investigation of the house fire by the Rainsville Fire Department and Simpson’s insurance company turned up no evidence of arson.”
23/ “Then on March 1, as Simpson was returning from Birmingham after a meeting with Scrushy and his legal team, a car followed her ‘for a long way’ on state Highway 431 before swerving into her lane, twice and running her off the road.”
24/ https://twitter.com/kimzetter/status/1043204791101415425?s=21 https://twitter.com/KimZetter/status/1043204791101415425
25/ ES&S apparently has an office in Alabama. https://freepress.org/article/voting-machine-maker-remote-access-feature-was-involved-alabamas-2002-governors-race-where
27/ Thread. https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1143009089267486720?s=21 https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1143009089267486720
28/ https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/941815898909810688?s=21 https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/941815898909810688
29/ From 2017: https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/941819024438112258?s=21 https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/941819024438112258
30/ Alabama giveth and taketh away. It has hand marked paper ballots, but prohibits manual recounts. https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/940250677971886080?s=21 https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/940250677971886080
31/ https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1211415630902988801?s=21 https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1211415630902988801
32/ https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1052973034271735808?s=21 https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1052973034271735808
33/ Rove also has deep Alabama ties https://www.newamericanjournal.net/2014/02/how-karl-rove-took-over-the-alabama-supreme-court-and-created-a-no-win-zone-for-citizens/
34/ https://twitter.com/chipfaust/status/1211459717438021633?s=21 https://twitter.com/ChipFaust/status/1211459717438021633
36/ “Hubbard, the Birmingham News and the Mobile Press-Register are clearly vexed by the mounting calls from Republicans for Siegelman to be set free.“ - 2008 https://harpers.org/blog/2008/02/siegelman-updates-3/
37/ “And today they have another setback. Former Reagan Administration Treasury official and Wall Street Journal editor Paul Craig Roberts weighs in:...
38/ “Don Siegelman, a popular Democratic governor of Alabama, a Republican state, was framed in a crooked trial, convicted on June 29, 2006, & sent to Federal prison by the corrupt and immoral Bush administration.” - Former Reagan Treasury official & WSJ editor Paul Craig Roberts
39/ “Now what was the response of Karl Rove? He issued a flat denial, and then 48 hours later took a step back from it. He refused to appear before the House Judiciary Committee and answer questions under oath. He refused to turn over his documents.” https://harpers.org/blog/2008/02/siegelman-updates-3/
40/ “The [Bush] White House then announced that millions of his [Rove’s] emails had mysteriously disappeared, and that a significant part of the total had been written using servers of the RNC, as to which the Bush Administration... asserted executive privilege...”
41/ Those “lost” emails were stored on a Smartech server. The Obama administration later found them, but reached a deal to disclose only a tiny fraction. Smartech was then hacked by Russia in 2015! https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1172029480933609472?s=21 https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1172029480933609472
42/ https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1038223173081227264?s=21 https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1038223173081227264
43/ “Hidden away in the basement of a bank building on Broad Street here, there is a bank of computer servers containing all the evidence Congress and the courts need to investigate and prosecute all the crimes of the Bush years.” 3/1/09 http://blog.locustfork.net/2009/03/white-house-rnc-email-backed-up-in-chattanooga/
44/ “That includes the mysteriously missing e-mail messages sent by Karl Rove from his White House office through the Republican National Committee e-mail addresses from his special Blackberry reserved for political activities.”
45/ “Rove, who has now defied a Congressional subpoena three times.. is known to have used that Blackberry paid for by the RNC to keep on top of all kinds of nefarious activities, including the political prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman.” 3/1/09
46/ Given that Russia hacked Smartech, might Rove and GW Bush be living under the threat of blackmail by Russia? What might they do to avoid exposure?
47/ Jill Simpson claims that “Rove once told her that election results can be manipulated to achieve victory w/o undue suspicion so long as the preferred candidate is within 3 percentage points of the targeted candidate in the final polls in a state.” https://www.justice-integrity.org/40-rove-vote-switching-empire-alleged-to-threaten-nov-6-results
48/ Related thread. https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1143220476954628097?s=21 https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1143220476954628097
49/ “Chairman Conyers Releases Jill Simpson Transcript on the Prosecution of former Alabama Governor Siegelman” https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/chairman-conyers-releases-jill-simpson-transcript-on-the-prosecution-of-former-alabama-governor-siegelman
50/ Here is the December 2016 report by Jim and Jill Simpson re: the wireless modems in ES&S’s DS200 scanners: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6Fh3F6hufhDY2hMbWx2ZXNBSVk/view
51/ Related affidavit of John Brakey: https://www.auditelectionsusa.org/2016/12/12/ess-ds200-wireless-vulnerabilities/
