Rove didn't have a clue. His bit was more like Don Ameche's rant at the end of "Trading Places" -- "Get those people back in here! Turn those machines back on! Turn those machines back on!"
You're not paranoid, you're suspicious. the definition of paranoid is, the feeling that people don't like you, when in fact they don't, when the polite thing to do is to shut up about it.
In 2004 the state of Ohio configured it's election process so that in case of a system failure the votes would be sent to a mirror site run by SmarTech in Chattanooga Tennessee for backup. Turns out, there were "system failures" caused by deliberate bottlenecking of data, shortly before midnight on election night and the tabulations were routed to the SmarTech system and when they came back the results were flipped for Bush. SmarTech ran a middle site that had the ability to alter the data.
Similar "system failures" happened again this election at the same time as in 2004 (probably about the time the vote tabulations start turning in favor of Obama). Anonymous claims the transmission of data to the Tennnesse server was blocked so the vote totals could not be altered, instead there was only a delay in what-was-to-become the accurate tabulations.
Karl Rove's behavior late on election night certainly fits with Anonymous's claim. He seemed irrationally and stubbornly confident that the busy districts that were bottlenecking were going to come out in favor of Romney, despite the polling data. I must say, although I didn't understand his stubborn refusal to face facts at the time, I was nonetheless pleased at seeing him squirm.
@12 - Hey maroon, why don't you stamp your feet since no one is answering your question (because no one the FUCK CARES about it) that you're posting all over Slog to no avail.
So, is it true? Did Anonymous really save the election from Republican operatives embedded in Diebold?
But they think they are.
But oh God, oh God, oh God, how I hope it all happened exactly as Anonymous described it!
Similar "system failures" happened again this election at the same time as in 2004 (probably about the time the vote tabulations start turning in favor of Obama). Anonymous claims the transmission of data to the Tennnesse server was blocked so the vote totals could not be altered, instead there was only a delay in what-was-to-become the accurate tabulations.
Karl Rove's behavior late on election night certainly fits with Anonymous's claim. He seemed irrationally and stubbornly confident that the busy districts that were bottlenecking were going to come out in favor of Romney, despite the polling data. I must say, although I didn't understand his stubborn refusal to face facts at the time, I was nonetheless pleased at seeing him squirm.
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a bishop "for decades":
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-34222_162-57…
Cleveland Plain Dealer:
http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ss…
100's more, just Google "Crapo Bishop."