There's a diary on the recommended list today reporting that the hosting server for the Ohio Secretary of State website was changed on or shortly before November 3, 2004. As I explained in a
comment, the hosting server in question was not counting the votes. Furthermore, there are reasonable explanations for why the hosting server would be changed during a period when heavy traffic could be anticipated.
During the 2004 election in Ohio there was thumb on the scale -- but it wasn't put there through a website hosting server.
UPDATE #2 - Get the whole story at ePluribusMedia
The diary on the recommended list is incomplete and fails to reference a 2006 story by ePluribusMedia. Read that story to understand what really happened and why it IS significant. Further relevant links can be found here.
During the 2004 election in Ohio, there were massive irregularies. These are documented in What Went Wrong In Ohio: The Conyers Report On The 2004 Presidential Election.
Some of the documented irregularities involved electronic voting machines, but many did not. It's important to understand this in order to comprehend how certain political operatives have been undermining our voting system.
In the 2004 election in Ohio, the allocation of voting machines was such that voters in heavily Democratic districts were more likely to have long waits. Unlike the stalwart students at Kenyon College, many of them were not able to stand in line until past midnight in order to exercise their right to vote. In addition, various methods were used to confuse, misdirect, or intimidate urban and minority voters. And, yes, there were irregularities involving electronic voting systems.
I AM concerned about the potential for massive vote fraud via insecure electronic voting systems. I know a lot of other technical professionals who share my concern. What they do not share, however, is my concern about the use of other methods to manipulate the outcome of elections. Their theory, you see, is that these other methods are a kind of "noise" that averages out in the end.
So "vote fraud" gets much more attention that vote suppression -- and also becomes confused in the minds of low-information voters with "voter fraud."
Meanwhile, the thumb on the scale remains, and we are in danger of despotism by spreadsheet.
UPDATE - The Significance of the Website Server
Reading the comment by lorelynn, it occurs to me that control of a server for the website diplaying election results can lead to control over the timing of information release. If you make sure that results favorable to Party A are reported quickly and results favorable to Party B are reported more slowly, that might influence subsequent events in ways that favor Party A.
After reading the full story at ePluribus Media, it's even more obvious why partisan control of the website server is significant.