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."

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Re:Ohio and Florida

[Anonymous Coward]

Troll. The CEO made no such promises, and the exit polls? Maybe the people (the majority, I might add) who voted for Bush simply didn't want to piss with the already Democratically biased media (Dan, Tom, Wolfe, et al -- with the exception of Foxnews which is evening sickeningly biased to me on the right-hand side of the fence) and their polls. I know that's why I didn't stop to be 'exit polled.' I knew that no matter what I said that it would still look on the Tele like Kerry was ahead. Go figure.

Re:This is it, folks. Donate!

[mordors9]

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.

Get a life people

[BluedemonX]

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

None of this will change anything.

Get over it.

[Anonymous Coward]

You lost. And when I say "you lost", I do mean you: the tinfoil-hat lunatic fringe that cost the Democrats the election. Many people -- enough people -- who dislike Bush's social and/or economic agenda voted for him because the alternative was a party and a candidate that ranked their victory more important than the nation. Lieberman, or anyone else with a foreign policy better than 'let France surrender for us', would have wiped the floor with Bush.

Consider this election a learning experience. If you don't, your party is dead; Giuliani/Rice will sweep the center in '08.

Re:They do?

[cosmo7]

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.

Re:They do?

[Richthofen80]

One of their main developers has a prior felony conviction.

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

THINK OF THE TREES!!

[Anonymous Coward]

For every vote you cast, God kills a tree!

All you people wanting to kill harmless little trees instead of filthy electrons, I hope you die in a landfill!!!

"puritanical Christian right-wing"

[mainlylinux]

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

Re:There's MUCH more going on than "Bush & Ker

[Marthisdil]

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...