{"id":1283,"date":"2005-03-24T20:01:19","date_gmt":"2005-03-25T00:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2006-10-11T16:36:05","modified_gmt":"2006-10-11T23:36:05","slug":"mystery-solved-location-of-american-center-for-voting-rights-found-exclusive-photographs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=1283","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Solved! Location of ‘American Center for Voting Rights’ Found! Exclusive Photographs!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to the dilligence and footwork of a few BRAD BLOG<\/a> readers and foot-soldiers, we are now able to offer an Exclusive photographic look at the location of the mysterious “American Center for Voting Rights” (ACVR)! Or at least a look at the mysterious and unnamed Dallas, TX company who is said by ACVR press spokesman, Jim Dyke, to have developed their website.<\/p>\n

After recently reporting<\/a> that the newly-formed, tax-exempt, “non-partisan”, “voters rights” group, calling themselves the ACVR, is apparently little more than a GOP front group run by Dyke (the 2004 Communications Director for the Republican National Committee), Mark F. (Thor) Hearne, II (the National General Counsel for Bush\/Cheney ’04 Inc.) and others, we sought to learn more about them.<\/p>\n

In our exclusive BRAD BLOG interview<\/a> yesterday with Dyke, the “contact” person for the group — which suddenly appeared on the Internet last Thursday and was then called to give expert testimony last Monday before a U.S. Congressional House committee on the November Election Irregularties in Ohio — we had asked Dyke about the location of the ACVR.<\/p>\n

The hard-right Republican (responsible, among other things, for posting folks in “Flipper” dolphin costumes at John Kerry events in 2004) instructed us that, though he personally was in Charleston SC, the Dallas TX address on the Internic record for the new group — the one which shows they just purchased their website domain just last week — belonged to “the company that designed the website”.<\/p>\n

Here’s the clip from yesterday’s interview where we asked about that Dallas TX address on the Internetic record for the AC4VR.com, the group’s Internet domain:<\/p>\n

JIM DYKE:<\/b> That’s the company that designed the website.<\/p>\n

BRAD BLOG:<\/b> I see. What company is that?<\/b><\/p>\n

DYKE:<\/b> I’d have to look into and get back to you.<\/p>\n

BB:<\/b> You don’t recall their name?<\/p>\n

DYKE:<\/b> I’ll have to check and get back to you on that.<\/div>\n

We’ve yet to hear back from Dyke, but by way of a reminder, here again is the screenshot from the ACVR’s Internic registration which has, as of this posting, now been locked from public view:<\/p>\n

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As you’ll note, Dyke himself is listed on that record as both the group’s “Administrative” and<\/i> “Technical” contact at the address of “jim@dykeassociates.com”.<\/p>\n

Further, this morning a BRAD BLOG<\/a> commenter noted that the Internic record for the domain name of DykeAssociates.com itself shows that the domain was established by Dyke in December of ’04. By this afternoon, however, the information from dykeassociates.com’s Internic record has also been made private as the one from AC4VR.com. Here is the information available before<\/i> it was hidden by the owners from public view:<\/p>\n

Registrant:
\nJim Dyke
\n5029 Macomb St
\nWashington, District of Columbia 20016
\nUnited States<\/p>\n

Registered through: GoDaddy.com
\nDomain Name: DYKEASSOCIATES.COM
\nCreated on: 06-Dec-04
\nExpires on: 06-Dec-06
\nLast Updated on: 06-Dec-04<\/p>\n

Administrative Contact:
\nDyke, Jim jim@dykeassociates.com
\n5029 Macomb St
\nWashington, District of Columbia 20016
\nUnited States
\n2022443558 Fax —
\nTechnical Contact:
\nDyke, Jim jim@dykeassociates.com
\n5029 Macomb St
\nWashington, District of Columbia 20016
\nUnited States
\n2022443558 Fax — <\/p>\n

Domain servers in listed order:
\nWSC1.JOMAX.NET
\nWSC2.JOMAX.NET<\/div>\n

So if Dyke himself is in South Carolina, and his own<\/i> company is established as being in Washington D.C., who<\/i> or what<\/i> is “the company that designed the website” whom Dyke couldn’t remember the name of, and who is described as working out of “8409 Pickwick Lane 299” in Dallas TX?<\/p>\n

An intrepid BRAD BLOG<\/a> reader took a field trip to that address this morning to find out for us and has now sent back Exclusive photographs!<\/p>\n

Here now — for the first time on the Internets — is an Exclusive BRAD BLOG<\/a> look at “8409 Pickwick Lane 299”, the address for the Dallas, TX company who designed the website for the ACVR or — perhaps even more likely — the headquarters for the American Center for Voting Rights itself!…<\/p>\n

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While there may be some small-minded<\/i> folks working these days for GOP front groups, we suspect this choice for a home office would be entirely too cramped even for the tiniest of professional Republican disinformation operatives.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, while the Rightwing Lilliputians may be hard at work disinforming the masses, we still have no idea where the funding for this group comes from. They claim to be a not-for-profit, “non-partisan”, tax-exempt 501(c)3 organization, but have neither produced the paperwork for it as required by law<\/i>, nor do they seek donations from the public on their website.<\/p>\n

Could there be monied interests in Dallas, TX who might have something to gain from by producing smoke and subterfuge via a well-connected, but phony, “Voting Rights” group setup and run by high-level GOP operatives in order to distract from the real<\/i> Election Reform organizations<\/a> gaining steam in America?<\/p>\n

We’ll continue to label this story as…DEVELOPING<\/i>…<\/p>\n

UPDATE 3\/26\/05:<\/b> The ACVR disinfo campaign is in full swing! Click here to help counter their disinformation NOW!<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>For more information on the “non-partisan” tax-exempt ACVR scam and the snakeoil salesmen who invented it, Bush\/Cheney ’04 National General Counsel Mark F. “Thor” Hearne and RNC Communications Director Jim Dyke, please see BRAD BLOG’s full Special Coverage of the “American Center for Voting Rights” at https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/ACVR<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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