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Blackboxvoting.org Raises Vote-Audit FOIA Request
aacool writes "Blackboxvoting.org has raised the largest Freedom of Information request in history. At 8:30 p.m. Election Night, Black Box Voting blanketed the U.S. with the first in a series of public records requests, to obtain internal computer logs and other documents from 3,000 individual counties and townships. Networks called the election before anyone bothered to perform even the most rudimentary audit. Among the first requests sent to counties (with all kinds of voting systems -- optical scan, touch-screen, and punch card) is a formal records request for internal audit logs, polling place results slips, modem transmission logs, and computer trouble slips."
I have to hand it to Karl Rove, he truly stood on the shoulders of giants.
I was so hoping that I wouldn't get four more years of the same, but I was wrong. It looks like I'm going to have another four years of insanity.
Am I talking about Bush? Fuck no! I'm talking about the utterly pathetic Democrats whining that the election was stolen! The last four years were nearly unbearable. Why is there a preponderance of electronic voting machines this year? Because the Democrats managed to convince everyone that punch ballots were a Republican conspiracy. So what do we get instead? Conspiracies about touch screen voting! Aaargh!
This morning on the news there was a "woman on the street" interview with the lady in San Fransisco *crying* that Kerry didn't challenge the election. If I can remember her quote, it was something like, "Why did he give up? He could still have won if he would have gone to court!"
Last time Bush did not win the popular vote, so Democrats griped about the nasty evil Constitution and the vast right-wing conspiracy known as the Electoral College. But this time Bush won the popular vote. Last time the Democrats blamed the Naderites siphoning off their votes. They can't blame spoilers this time around because Badnarik spoiled the Republicans as much as Nader spoiled the Democrats (approx 01% each way). Last time the blamed the low voter turnout. This election saw a record turnout, and they still lost.
In short, the Democrats have no one to blame but themselves. But never in the history of this Republic has a Democrat ever blamed himself. So they invent a new conspiracy. I fear for my patience and sanity over the next four years.
I am not a Republican. But you don't have to be in the Bush bed to hear the constant peurile whining from the Democrat side. I thought this was going to be like Lemmings, where they would all quiver and explode *pop* *pop* *pop* *pop* after the election. I was wrong. They quivered and fumed even popped some shirt buttons, but they didn't explode. They're still here to present us with four more years of their sbsurdist fantasies of Republican machinations.
The Democrats lost the election fair and square, and they need to realize it.
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
I understand made use of electronic voting machines manufactured by Diebold.
Yes, in two counties. Now, all you have to figure out is how they managed to fake the remaining 86 counties, which used everything from machines from other manufacturers to (mostly) paper ballots.
Their CEO pledged to do whatever was in his power to swing the election towards George.
Yup; they're called large campaign contributions. A Republican (gasp!!) by the name of Senator John McCain has been fighting them tooth-and-nail for years. Have you given a thought to giving him and guys like him a hand, or you too busy with conspiracy theories?
Interesting... Plus the exit polls seemed to suggest a different winner.
Curious. What exit polls were you watching? Certainly not the ones I was monitoring. Something else that's curious is that people look at these supposed numerical discrepancies and assume that the voting process is flawed rather than taking a hard look at these unscientific, unmonitored exit polls.
I've lived in Ohio all my life, voted for Kerry, and frankly find it insulting that a pack of conspiracy-mongering, tantrum-tossing ignoramuses think Ohioans are so stupid as to let some mythological cabal steal our ballots right out from under our noses.
So go back to watching for your UFOs, and leave us alone.
Regards;
So because there is no evidence or even allegation of wrongdoing, we must investigate to try and find some. I guess I miss the logic in that. I see I have modded a troll for disagreeing with you, yet you are modded insightful. I guess I need to bash Americans and engage in name calling to up my score.
The mindset of large urban centers such as New York, LA and San Francisco is not the mindset of the rest of the country by a long shot.
Yet the large urban centers is where almost all of the economic, social, and technological progress has occured. The rural areas are so poor that they wouldn't even be able to support themselves without charity from the same urban centers on which they are trying to force the backwards ass "morals" which help hold them back.
Is it any surprise that the majority of the Bush supporters are in the poorest states with the worst education?
I pity the rest of us as they try to drag us down to their level.
"It's sad that these pukes are so ingorant of any sort of marality that they think it's right and moral to force people at gunpoint to have children they can not support and it's also good to murder thousands of innocent people on a basis of lies."
Dude are you on FUCKING crack?
"force people at gunpoint to have children"
Are you trying to say that abortion is moral and anti-abortion is immoral?
WHO MADE THE CHOICE TO HAVE SEX? WHO'S RESPONSIBILITY IS THAT? DO I HAVE TO WIPE YOUR ASS FOR YOU? TAKE **RESPONSIBLITY** FOR YOUR ACTIONS! DON'T KILL **INNOCENT** LIFE BECAUSE YOU HAD SEX AND DON'T WANT TO DEAL WITH THE CONSEQUENCES!
When did you get access to Langley computers? YOU MUST BE GOD, YOU KNOW WHAT IS TRUE AND WHAT IS LIE, HUH? You know better than anyone, it's a fact, you have evidence, empiracle. Go ahead and post it to the CNN site if what you say is true, it's all lies. You sound so sure of yourself, you must have proof.
SADDAM KILLED 400,000 PEOPLE BECAUSE HE COULD!! 400,000!!!! WHOS THE FUCKING CRIMINAL HERE? DO YOU HATE IRAQI'S? YOU'D RATHER THAT THEY STILL HAVE A MANAICAL DICK WITH TEETH RULING THEM?
Guess what? I hate to break the news to you, but as naive as you girlie-men want to be, we're in a WAR with people who will not simply go away and leave us alone. Keep ignoring them like Clinton did when they blew up the embassies and the Oklahoma City federal building, when the first World Trade Center bombing happened, when they blew up TWA Flight 800, etc. Clinton could have had that fucknut Osama handed over to him on a silver platter, but he didn't have the balls that Bush has, so 3000 people had to die on 9/11.
Oh, how about "No blood for oil" and all this anti-Iraq-war bullshit? Look on a map. Look carefully. Iraq is right smack in the middle of the worst trouble-making region for terrorism. Having such a huge U.S. military installation there is an INGENIOUS strategy. But you sore losers fail to see it because it's more important to have a democrat in the White House than to keep our country and the world secure.
I was a democrat my whole life. When 9/11 happened, I said, "Thank God we have Bush." And today, I say, "Thank God that Bush won the election."
the problem with the blacks is not the GOP. the problem is with the black women. they let themselves get run over by the black men!
more importantly, since you mention the south park cartoon...
the problem is mostly with the liberal media feeding the GOP fear!!!