Cheater By Nature

by digby

So reporters won the release of document proving that Joe Miller was fired from his job for using borough computers to rig an online vote. How fitting.

The documents reveal his own words:

Over the lunch hour this past Wednesday, I got on three computers (not belong to me) in the office. All of them were on and none of them were locked. I accessed my personal website for political purposes (participated in a poll), and then cleared the cache on each computer. I did the same thing on my computer. Jill asked the office what happened. I lied about accessing all of the computers. I then admitted about accessing the computers, but lied about what I was doing. Finally, I admitted what I did.

And he was rigging the poll — that’s why he needed to use three different computers.

What political project was Miller working on at the time? An organized purge of the state GOP leadership, led by none other than Sarah Palin.

When I first heard this story it sounded familiar. And then I remembered Susie Madrak’s catch from a couple of months ago:

Of course Wall Street’s most powerful company wouldn’t stoop to rigging an online poll, right? In fact, one of their spinners said the bank had “just received this information and is investigating fully”. Yeah, I think they’re going to join O.J. Simpson in looking for the perpetrators!

Around 3:41 pm yesterday, the technical team watching the vote counter on a grass root campaign’s website noticed that the “no” votes increased dramatically. A few days ago robinhoodtax.com, asked the public to vote on a “tiny” tax on bankers that would donate no more than .05% of each banking transaction to the poor. They say it would raise more than $100 billion pounds. Robin Hood’s security team said that it traced the erroneous votes to two computers, one of which is allegedly registered to Goldman, according to The Telegraph.

Republicans and Wall Street: cheaters by nature.