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."

Concession speech in 3, 2, 1.....

[general_re]

We call on every candidate not to concede.

So much for that....

Freedom...

[garcia]

The only people who would question the authenticity of the United States of America's election process via the "e-voting" method are those are support the ending of freedom and the resurgence of terror!

Why wouldn't you just trust the results you see in the media? Why must you map the tunnels that carry our infastructure only a terrorist would need that information [slashdot.org]!

Remember 10 out of 10 terrorists support John Kerry! If you are questioning the election results you must not support Bush and thus you must be a terrorist.

I'm only 52% kidding.

Re:What are the possible consequences?

[Timesprout]

Fortunately Diebold software comes with multiple undo capacity. All thats required is for the Election Officer to select the 2004 presidential election tab hit the undo button and time will roll back to Nov 1.

So many requests

[Leto-II]

Who are these people, requesting so much information?! They must be terrorists!

Woohoo....

[FooGoo]

Let the conspiracy theories begin...

4 MORE YEARS!

[Neil Blender]

4 MORE YEARS! Wait a minute, before you mark this troll or flamebait. I'm talking about 4 MORE YEARS OF SLASHDOT! Slashdot has been on the verge of death lately and probably couldn't survive a Kerry victory. With another 4 more years of Bush, Slashdot is virtually guaranteed an extra 2-5 stories per week that generate 1300+ comments and thus traffic and ad revenue. Look in the HOF [slashdot.org], all the top stories are politically related. Thanks to Bush's victory, Slashdot will generate enough add revenue to continue. We should all be happy.

Re:Illegal!

[Ioldanach]

If, however, it should turn out that he has won Ohio, for example, when all the ballots are counted, then he will still gain Ohio's electoral votes and, presumably, the presidency,

As a Red Sox fan, I'm entirely confident that it WILL HAPPEN.

Fortunately, as a Red Sox fan, I'm also used to dissapointment.

Re:Ohio and Florida

[AvitarX]

No you fool.

I work with computers every day, and I can tell you they always work perfectly.

And every touch screen I have ever used is always calibrated perfectly well.

There is no need for a paper trail because they ran tests on 50 votes and found the machine was perfect.

I got my vote on in Virginia - Redux

[slungsolow]

I was pretty excited to see that Virginia wasn't using Diebold machines in the voting booths. I was happy to see the WinVote machines. They looked slick, they worked fine and I had no complaints.

This morning I looked into the company and found out that it is run by 2 former Diebold executives.

I really don't like that too much.

Oxymoron?

[jimand]

From outside the United States "American democracy" is right up there with "jumbo shrimp" and "plastic glass".

Re:Huh?

[Hobadee]

Wa-hoops. That's prolly it - West Virginia. I *thought* it was Colorado, but apparently not. Sorry bout that.

(See! I can apologize for my mistakes! Unlike someone else we all know. *cough*Bush*cough*)

FOIA Response Letter

[fizban]

They just received a response:


Dear BlackBoxVoting.org,

Your name sounds very ominous. Are you a terrorist organization? No matter, we will soon find out.

Your request for audit logs and other miscellaneous data has been rejected. We feel that providing this information to the public would allow terrorists a clear view inside our political process, which they might then use to influence future elections. We cannot allow that to happen, therefore, the logs will be kept under lock and key until a time far in the future when no one today will be alive to be held accountable for any mistakes.

In addition, we feel your questioning of the voting process undermines the public's faith in our democratic system and we wouldn't want any facts or numbers to confuse people and cause them to lose faith, would we? We also feel that no one should ever question the government, because anyone who does so is obviously out to destroy America and that's just wrong. Who does that?

The FBI, CIA, NSA, DOD, IRS, SEC, DHS, AFSPC, ANG, ATF, BOP, CBIAC, CDC, and OSHA will all be paying you a visit to "straighten things out."

Thank you for your time.

Your Government.

Obligitory

[Anonymous Coward]

I for one welcome our newly re-elected ape overlord

Re:great...

[TelevisioSledgicus]

My response when it's denied will be "Good riddance to badd rubbish!" We don't need any post-election social engineering interfering with the painstaking pre-election tampering!

Re:They do?

[tassii]

Uh, the fact that the Bible-believing 50+% of Americans find homosexuality immoral. I disagree with them, completely and utterly and totally, but their moral code says that condoning homosexuality would be immoral, and that sanctioning a marriage between them would be condoning their behavior.

What ever happened to "Love thy brother"?

Re:Consistent Voting

[Anonymous Coward]

If a square is really a rhombus, why aren't all triangles purple?

Because all circles are orange.
Duh.

Re:They do?

[argent]

Kerry lost largely on high voter turnout for those who opposed him on moral grounds, especially gay marriage.

Boy, that sure puts Bush in his place, all he had goin' for him was lyin' cheatin' and theivin'.

It's true

[commodoresloat]

The machines worked perfectly. The candidate who was supposed to get elected, did.

Re:They do?

[Vintermann]

"Nationally, Blacks voted for Kerry 10 to 1, whereas Whites voted for Bush 2 to 1."

Where can I apply to become black, please? There's got to be some way!!