One of the most mysterious and under reported deaths in recent history is that of Mike Connell.
Mike Connell was Karl Rove's chief IT consultant who died in a private plane crash in 2008.
At the time of his death Connell was facing a subpoena in connection with 2004 Presidential election fraud in Ohio.
Connell was allegedly the central figure in a longstanding plot to electronically flip votes to Republicans in the 2004 U.S. election.
In July 2008, Connell was named as a key witness in the case, which was filed against Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth J. Blackwell on August 31, 2006.
It charged Blackwell with racially discriminatory practices, including the selective purging of voters from the election rolls and the unequal allocation of voting machines to various districts.
Blackwell also faced charges of depriving the plaintiffs of their voting rights, including the right to have their votes successfully cast without intimidation, dilution, cancellation or reversal by voting machine or ballot tampering.
The ultimate accusation was that the Bush campaign electronically stole the Ohio 2004 election.
Connell was an experienced pilot. His plane had been recently serviced. He had been in the nation's capital on still-unknown business before his single engine plane crashed December 22, 2008 on the way home, just three miles short of the runway in Akron, Ohio.
The cause of the crash remains unknown. At the time of his death, the only mainstream news outlet in the U.S. to even mention Connell's death and the controversies surrounding his involvement in electronic voting was a single CBS/AP story.
Sources:
The Raw Story, September 29, 2008
Title: “Republican IT consultant subpoenaed in case alleging tampering with 2004 election”
Authors: Larisa Alexandrovna and Muriel Kane
The Brad Blog, December 22, 2008
Title: “OH Election Fraud Attorney Reacts to the Death of Mike Connell“
Author: Brad Friedman
