RawStory has this tonight:
Michael L. Connell was served with a subpoena in Ohio on Sept. 22 in a case alleging that vote-tampering during the 2004 presidential election resulted in civil rights violations. Connell, president of GovTech Solutions and New Media Communications, is a website designer and IT professional who created a website for Ohio’s secretary of state that presented the results of the 2004 election in real time as they were tabulated.
At the time, Ohio’s Secretary of State, Kenneth J. Blackwell, was also chairman of Bush-Cheney 2004 reelection effort in Ohio.
Connell has filed a motion to quash the subpoena. RawStory reports "the request for documents is burdensome because the information sought should be "readily ascertainable through public records request" – but also, paradoxically, because "it seeks confidential, trade secrets, and/or proprietary information" that "have independent economic value" and "are not known to the public, or even to non-designated personnel within or working for Mr. Connell’s business."
The case was filed against Kenneth J. Blackwell on Aug. 31, 2006. Originally a racial discrimiation case, it has expanded to include ballot-rigging. It seems to have recently picked up some urgency. There seems to be some possibility of a subpoena for Karl Rove.
The case took on fresh momentum earlier this year when Arnebeck announced in July that he was filing to "lift the stay in the case [and] proceed with targeted discovery in order to help protect the integrity of the 2008 election." The new filing was inspired in part by the coming forward as a whistleblower of GOP IT security expert Stephen Spoonamore, who said he was prepared to testify to the plausibility of electronic vote-rigging having been carried out in 2004.
Arnebeck’s hope was that in the course of the discovery procedure it would be possible to subpoena Michael Connell, former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, and others to obtain additional information and improve the focus of the case.
It's quite a long, involved case, but an interesting aspect of it has to do with a server in Chatanooga, TN that hosts a great number of Republican type websites - Like Bush-Cheney ’04 campaign, the US Chamber of Commerce, the Republican National Committee and many Republican candidates. This server also happened to be the gateway that consolidated all the real-time vote tallying for Ohio in 2004 for Ken Blackwell.
It's a long, involved story, but I think it's significant, in that they are trying to complete it before November elections. It could 'supress' a lot of vote supression if they got caught in a high-tech hijack - in Ohio- right before the election.
Go read it - I can't copy any more of it, and if I try to summarize, I'll be here another two hours. So, Goodnight!