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Karl Rove—who met w/ Trump a few days ago—was once sued for allegedly rigging the 2004 presidential election in Ohio, but the key witness died in a plane crash. (Kerry has since said that his campaign suspected electronic rigging.) Rove met w/ Trump b4 the 2016 election too. 1/ https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1260785631606661122
Discussion of the 2004 election and lawsuit against Rove. 2/ https://harpers.org/archive/2012/11/how-to-rig-an-election/6/
Mike Connell, who died in this private plane crash in 2008, had been subpoenaed to testify in the lawsuit alleging that Rove rigged the 2004 election, but he died in a plane crash before the trial, 3/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/republican-it-guru-dies-in-plane-crash/
Thread. h/t @LuluFriesdat. 4/ https://twitter.com/lulufriesdat/status/1037730452734464000?s=21 https://twitter.com/LuluFriesdat/status/1037730452734464000
5/ Trump and Rove secretly met in May 2016 per @VanityFair. h/t @TimAlberta https://twitter.com/timalberta/status/1150579582883586050?s=21 https://twitter.com/TimAlberta/status/1150579582883586050
6/ Related thread. https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/893558606536163328?s=21 https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/893558606536163328
7/ Note that the company involved in the allegedly stolen 2004 election was Smartech, which also hosted Karl Rove’s emails. Russia hacked Smartech in 2015. Blackmail anyone? https://www.wired.com/2017/01/russia-hacked-older-republican-emails-fbi-director-says/
8/ Source re: Smartech hosting Rove’s emails. https://harpers.org/2012/09/_boss-rove_-six-questions-for-craig-unger/
9/ Thread re: Rove and the political prosecution of Don Siegelman (via Rove) and the suspected rigging of an election against Siegelman. https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1211422951402164225?s=21 https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1211422951402164225
10/ They could have done it with remote access to the EMS systems, which include the central tabulators that aggregate precinct totals. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mb4ezy/top-voting-machine-vendor-admits-it-installed-remote-access-software-on-systems-sold-to-states
11/ The 2004 recount in Ohio was a sham and resulted in people going to prison. I wrote about it here. A company called Triad had remote access to the tabulators. https://link.medium.com/bbUZ73dNu6
12/ Related. https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1211507493077049344?s=21 https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1211507493077049344
13/ In 2007, Mike Connell (New Media) & Jeff Averbeck (Smartech & Airnet) who set up the election system to route Ohio’s 2004 results thru Smartech in TN—were “strategic partners” of Paul Manafort’s IT company known as 3edc. h/t Bob Fritakis http://web.archive.org/web/20070304101901/www.3edc.net/partners/
14/ As I discuss here (with sources), McCain fired 3edc (Manafort) before the 2008 election. https://link.medium.com/BfEVoQgQv6
15/ Rove does not appear to have been involved in the McCain 2008 presidential campaign. In 2007, Rive had resigned from the Bush administration amidst scandal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Rove
16/ McCain also likely hated Rove. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rove-denies-role-in-2000-rumor-about-mccains-adopted-daughter
17/ The lawsuit against Rove—in which Mike Connell was considered a key witness—was also in full swing in 2008. Up until Connell’s death in December that year. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/republican-it-guru-dies-in-plane-crash/
18/ In 2012, Rove was back. Some suspect he tried to rig the 2012 election, but that something went wrong. As I discuss in here, an election attorney was tipped off just b4 the election that ES&S had quietly installed software patches throughout OH. https://link.medium.com/xga1CNyRv6
19/ He alerted a court which might have been enough to cause cold feet. Anonymous also claimed to have thwarted an attempted hack in 2012, though it provided no proof. https://www.salon.com/2012/11/20/did_anonymous_stop_rove_stealing_the_election/
20/ There’s no way to know if there was a thwarted or even attempted hack in 2012 bc we can’t see inside voting equipment. But we already know there were remote access capabilities. And many of us did see Karl Rove’s bizarre 2012 election night meltdown.
21/ It’s also possible that high turnout thwarted an attempted hack in 2012. Again, there’s no way to know. The software is proprietary. No one apparently looked.
