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Blackboxvoting.org Raises Vote-Audit FOIA Request

Posted by timothy on from the transparency-or-pseudo-transparency dept.

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."

6 of 1,023 comments (clear)

  1. Re:This is it, folks. Donate! by mordors9 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Or better yet donate money to the States that will have to comply with this request. No reason for the taxpayers to have to foot the bill when it seems this is a politically motivated action, given the fact that the Kerrry campaign and the DNC would have contested the election if there was any evidence of wrongdoing at all.

  2. Get a life people by BluedemonX · · Score: 0, Troll

    Move to Canada or whatever, but Bush won - by a large margin. Get over it.

    None of this will change anything.

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  3. Re:They do? by cosmo7 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Could it be that the machines were programmed to swing .5% of the votes to Bush in order to put him over the top in any Florida-like situation without anybody noticing?

    Yep. Switch on CNN, this is what they're saying. Bush has just conceded Florida and the presidency.

    Also, the Concorde crash never happened, there was no 9/11 and Space Shuttle Columbia has finally landed.

  4. Re:They do? by Richthofen80 · · Score: 0, Troll

    One of their main developers has a prior felony conviction.

    Hold on. democrats want felons to vote, but not to write the voting software?

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  5. "puritanical Christian right-wing" by mainlylinux · · Score: 0, Troll

    I think that "puritanical Christian right-wing" is a big fat sterotype. Do you categorize people as niggers, spics, and waps too? Grow up.

  6. Re:There's MUCH more going on than "Bush & Ker by Marthisdil · · Score: 0, Troll

    Bandwidth Limit Exceeded The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later. Apache/1.3.31 Server at www.blackboxvoting.org Port 80

    Your resources are considerable, yet you run out of bandwidth on your website? Bunch of hacks you are...