Democrat Senator’s Website DDoS’ed

On the night of the Democratic Primary elections in Connecticut, Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman, who ran for Vice President under Al Gore in 2000, claimed that his website, www.joe2006.com was being “hacked.” Actually, it was under a severe DDoS attack, most likely against the DNS services which point internet users to the actual server. As of today, the website still says “This account under construction.”

From the UK’s Reg here:

A spokesman for US Senator Joseph Lieberman (Democrat, Connecticut) added a twist to the state’s Democratic primary election by claiming that their website was hacked, presumably by plumbers associated with challenger Ned Lamont.

“Voters cannot go to our website. They cannot access information,” Lieberman campaign manager Sean Smith explained. “It is a deliberate attempt to disenfranchise voters.”

The Lamont camp denied any knowledge of the alleged attack, and denounced anyone who might have mounted it. They also offered to lend the Lieberman people one of their admins, in hopes of helping them get their system working again.

The hacking accusation didn’t win any sympathy votes for Lieberman, who lost the primary by a margin of 52 per cent to 48 per cent of the vote. The 2000 vice-presidential hopeful is now threatening to run as an independent candidate for the Senate in the 2006 election.

This is a real case of voter disenfranchisement. As such, it is probably under investigation by the FBI. For all the cries of voter disenfranchisement by Democrats after the past two Presidential elections, it seems that Democrats are the ones disenfranchising themselves.

Cynthia McKinney lost too, but she is claiming that electronic voting machines were rigged to kick her out. What a crock. Democrats dont like voting machines because they are more tamper resistant that paper ballot boxes. Yes, Democrats have historically cheated at the ballot boxes, but does that make them bad people?

Republicans were not the ones launching a DDoS against Joe Lieberman’s website. It was the kooky anti-war left that did it. And these same so-called “hackers” would love to demonstrate that they can hack a voting machine by rigging an election, or ridiculously running up a tally for dog catcher in some district. Heck, Black Hat and Defcon just ended in Vegas. The largest convention of hackers in America, and not one single voting booth in sight.

The electronic voting machine is the new Chupacabra to Democrats. Its their Bigfoot and Yeti rolled into one. Everyones afraid of it, and there are numerous claims and sightings of voter fraud, but no one can come up with a shred of proof.