Can Obama Win and Lose Ohio at the Same Time?

Ohio attorneys pushing to convince a federal judge in Franklin County to lift the stay on a case alleging Republican Party operatives and Bush family loyalists cyber-rigged the vote in certain Ohio counties in 2004, filed two affidavits on Wednesday from data security and academic research experts on voting. The attorneys hoped to convince the court to lift a stay on their case, allowing them to issue a subpoena to Mike Connell, a long-time information technology handyman who worked in both Ohio and Florida, who they want to depose now in an effort to see whether the Matrix-like system he helped build in Ohio, that some say put Ohio in the win column in 2004 for President Bush instead of his Democratic opponent John Kerry, a senator from Massachusettes, is still rigged to go off on Election Day in November.

Al Gore received hundreds of thousands more votes than George W. Bush did in 2000 nationwide, but didn't become president, even though a recount of votes after the election in Florida showed that he also won more votes there, too. Some say John Kerry won more votes in Ohio in 2004, but due to dozens of Election Day irregularities, some maybe orchestrated while others were just vulnerabilities in Ohio's system of voting, lost the state by 118,601 votes. So the question of whether Barack Obama, who currently trails John McCain in Ohio but who leads him in recent polls nationwide by four percentage points (49-45, Gallup) can both win and loose Ohio. If three Ohio attorneys get the signal to re-energize their now moribund lawsuit, we all might learn somethings that we need to know but that also might scare us straight, and show us that the wacky election conspirators the news media has marginalized were not as wacky as first thought.

The stay, which was lifted by the court of Judge Algernon Marbley last Friday after Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, who had previously issued motions to keep it in place least it interfer with plans for the upcoming presidential election, agreed to let plaintiff attorney's pursue more discovery by moving forward with the issusing of subpeonas to Connell and, maybe, to others like Karl Rove, President Bush's political adviser and master Republican strategist, who the attorneys and those helping them think a path of breadcrumbs will lead to. The attorneys say Connell can blow the whistle on how democracy was compromised in Ohio and other states, like Florida, where he was given the keys to the castle of cyber systems.

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