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CONSUMER PROTECTION FOR ELECTIONS

 

TUESDAY Nov 2 2004: BREAKING NEWS: New information indicates that

hackers may have targeted the central computers that are counting our

votes.

 

Media calls: 206-335-7747 (congestion) - 206-778-0524

E-mail

 

Freedom of Information requests are not free. We need to raise $50,000

as quickly as possible to pay for records and the fees some states

charge for them. We launched one major FOIA action last night, and

have two more on the way, pell-mell. Now is the time. If you can't

donate funds, please donate time. E-mail to join the Cleanup Crew.

 

Important: Watch this 30-minute film clip

 

http://www.votergate.tv/

 

 

Voting without auditing. (Are we insane?)

 

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON Nov 3 2004 -- Did the voting machines trump exit

polls? There's a way to find out.

 

Black Box Voting (.ORG) is conducting the largest Freedom of

Information action 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.

 

America: We have permission to say No to unaudited voting. It is our

right.

 

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.

 

An earlier FOIA is more sensitive, and has not been disclosed here. We

will notify you as soon as we can go public with it.

 

Such a request filed in King County, Washington on Sept. 15, following

the primary election six weeks ago, uncovered an internal audit log

containing a three-hour deletion on election night; " trouble slips "

revealing suspicious modem activity; and profound problems with

security, including accidental disclosure of critically sensitive

remote access information to poll workers, office personnel, and even,

in a shocking blunder, to Black Box Voting activists.

 

Black Box Voting is a nonpartisan, nonprofit consumer protection group

for elections. You may view the first volley of public records

requests here: Freedom of Information requests here

 

Responses from public officials will be posted in the forum, is

organized by state and county, so that any news organization or

citizens group has access to the information. Black Box Voting will

assist in analysis, by providing expertise in evaluating the records.

Watch for the records online; Black Box Voting will be posting the

results as they come in. And by the way, these are not free. The more

donations we get, the more FOIAs we are empowered to do. Time's a'wasting.

 

We look forward to seeing you participate in this process. Join us in

evaluating the previously undisclosed inside information about how our

voting system works.

 

Play a part in reclaiming transparency. It's the only way.

 

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