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OMFG. Democratic Election Commissioner @benniejsmith, learned for the first time a month or two ago—by reading Shelby County, TN’s new voting system RFP—that the county has a “MIRROR” ELECTION SERVER AT AN UNDISCLOSED REMOTE LOCATION. Pls listen to Smith (below). 
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Here’s a screenshot to the RFP that discloses the existence (but not the location) of this remote “mirror” election server. h/t @benniejsmith 2/
Link to my full interview of @benniejsmith where he explains how his review of precinct poll tapes in 2015 showed that votes from predominantly black precincts had been eliminated from the reported totals generated by Shelby County’s central tabulator. 3/
This reminds me a little too much of the 2004 presidential election in Ohio where Republican Secretary of State, Ken Blackwell, bizarrely hired Mike Connell & Jeff Averbeck (Smartech) to create a “mirror” election website & server in Tennessee. 4/ 
https://harpers.org/archive/2012/11/how-to-rig-an-election/6/
https://harpers.org/archive/2012/11/how-to-rig-an-election/6/
A lawsuit alleged that the 2004 election had been electronically manipulated by Connell and Averbeck (associates of Karl Rove), but Connell died in a private plane crash soon after he was subpoenaed to testify at trial. 5/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/republican-it-guru-dies-in-plane-crash/
Note that Smartech, which hosted the server that bizarrely received Ohio’s election returns just before the results flipped from John Kerry to George W. Bush at about 11:20 PM, was hacked by Russia in 2015. 6/ https://www.wired.com/2017/01/russia-hacked-older-republican-emails-fbi-director-says/
Karl Rove, who was previously not a fan of Donald Trump, changed his tune after he was summoned to meet with Trump in May 2016. 7/ https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/the-odd-couple-marriage-between-mike-pence-and-donald-trump
Rove has been summoned again to try to help Trump win re-election in 2020. 8/ https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/karl-rove-donald-trump-campaign-adviser.html
9/ @DonSiegelman, Alabama’s last Democratic Governor, explains how 6k votes disappeared from his vote total in the dead of night in his race for re-election. Karl Rove’s client, Alabama’s AG, seized the paper ballots b4 Siegelman cld recount them & illegally certified the result.
10/ ES&S (Shelby County’s vendor) has donated $30k to the GOP since 2013, as I discuss here. https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/05/27/touchscreen-voting-makes-everything-easy-including-hacking/
