Smoking Canon

I've picked this up from Angry Bear, a reputable blog. I cannot vouche for it's accuracy, but the players involved are not normally whacko. If this is true, this would appear to be some pretty damning evidence of Republican voter fraud in the Ohio election of 2004:

Netcraft is showing that an event happened in the Ohio 2004 election that is difficult to explain. The Secretary of State's website, which handles election reporting, normally is directed to an Ohio-based IP address hosted by the Ohio Supercomputer Center. On Nov. 3 2004, Netcraft shows the website pointing out of state to a server owned by Smartech Corp. According to the American Registry on Internet Numbers, Smartech's block of IP addresses 64.203.96.0 – 64.203.111.255 encompasses the entire range of addresses owned by the Republican National Committee. Smartech hosted the recently notorious gwb43.com domain used from the White House in apparent violation of the Presidential Records Act, from which thousands of White House emails vanished. Can anyone suggest a good explanations for this seemingly dubious election-eve transfer?

Here is the source post at Slashdot, whom I'm not familiar with.

With the revelations of the White House email system, it would make sense that a smart IT blogger-type would take 1 + 1 and get 2 at this time. And if true, this would be some solid physical evidence of tampering by the GOP in the Ohio election results. I hope this story gets picked up elsewhere and is either debunked of moved forward.

I will say this. It would not surprise me in the least to find out this is completely true.