The man who ran the servers for both the GOP candidate and the official Ohio election returns during the 2004 election has died hours ago in a plane crash outside of Akron-Canton Airport in Ohio. Michael L. Connell was under subpoena and set to testify about alleged tampering of the 2004 election, according to a piece by Larisa Alexandrovna at rawstory.com.

Further, there are copies of what are represented as communications from Connell’s attorneys claiming that GOP strategist Karl Rove had recently threatened Connell.

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