This morning Justin Rood of TPMmuckraker reported that Lieberman’s campaign had sent an email to their supporters early on Tuesday morning announcing the Lieberman Victory Party. Upon reviewing the headers of this email, I noted that the source of this email was a server used by an email marketing company–Blue Hornet.
When I was doing research for my earlier story on the reasons for Lieberman’s ‘hacked’ site woes, I noticed, in reviewing the cached pages of Joe2006.com in Google for references to Joomla! modules, that the web forms, like the “Newsletter Signup Form”, included on the home page of the Joe2006.com website were not being submitted to Joe2006.com, but to another company…Blue Hornet. Blue Hornet clearly handled all the heavy lifting involved with the collection of email addresses for Lieberman and the management of their mass-email communications.
When the email was delivered to Lieberman supporters early on Election Day, those emails originated from Blue Hornet. As such, the Lieberman campaign had mass-emailing capabilities not only in the morning of Election Day, but also continued to have this capability throughout the day. And they still do!
This statement by Sean Smith, in public as well as on the web page posted on Joe2006.com for days, was demonstrably false:
email has been totally disrupted and disabled” – Sean Smith
I guess he shouldn’t have used the word totally.
Did a member of Lieberman’s staff specifically prohibit the use of Blue Hornet’s services after their website was taken offline? It’s puzzling that Sean Smith was speaking to reporters about how the downing of their web server had suppressed “voter participation and undermine[d] the voting process on Election Day”, while the Lieberman campaign continued to have all its capability to “get out the vote” through email blasts. Discovering this, I’m actually happy the Feds are investigating.