blackboxvoting.org FOIA records campaign

[Doug Grinbergs <saule@xxxxxxxxx>]

As mentioned in an email to this list a few weeks ago, Bev Harris and associates at blackboxvoting.org have launched a campaign of Freedom of Information Act requests for access to voting documents. An excerpt from today's announcement: 

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... 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.

Links:
http://colorado.indymedia.org/newswire/display/9366/index.php
http://blackboxvoting.org