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Georgia Secretary of State Denies Open Record Request

Thursday, November 25, 2010 0:10

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There is something odd here.

Even though I’m solidly in the vote for Tammy Adkins for Supreme Court/Anybody but another handpicked freakin’ republican camp until after next Tuesday I have to agree with Garland that the general election results in that race are a bit bizarre. I’m also miffed that the great god Diebold picked that race to meddle in when it would have been much more fun to have skewed the Insurance Commissioners race instead. I could have used 500,000 votes to much better effect than they’ll get used here.

The bottom line is that us Georgians have no way of ever knowing what happened as long as the state continues the use of our Diebold voting equipment. The office of the SecState squashing a freedom of information request on security grounds is simply astonishing. It’s an open admission that the machines can be manipulated, which you can learn more about here and here and at a bazillion other sites on the good old world wide web.

Still and all, it’s a good story that should interest the citizenry. Here’s Garland Favorito’s press release:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Garland Favorito

November 24, 2010 (404) 664-4044

[email protected]

www.voterga.org

Open Records Request for GA Election Data Denied

ATLANTA, GA – The office of the Georgia Secretary of State, in conjunction with the office of the Attorney General, has denied a request for electronic data of the November 2010 general election. The request sought to preserve two voting machines from the general election along with a copy of a county server and its election results database. The requested items would have allowed a public test of the voting machines to help verify the Election Day counting accuracy of the equipment.

The accuracy was called into question after candidates and election integrity activists noticed a pattern in three candidate non-partisan races where candidates in certain ballot positions received an unusually higher percentage of electronic votes vs. mail-in absentee votes. One race produced questionable results similar to the Alvin Greene / Vic Rawl primary held earlier this year in South Carolina. More…

In the non-partisan Georgia Supreme Court election, voting machines recorded 733,770 votes for Tammy Adkins, a family lawyer who did NOT campaign, create a web site, accept donations, respond to surveys, advertise, distribute literature, register phone and Email contact data or accept media requests.

Studies indicate that top ballot positioning may offer a 2.5% vote advantage and a female gender may offer as much as a 3.5% advantage. But that accounts for only 6% of the 36% received by Adkins, who has now initiated a campaign, after winning a run-off spot. Even if those estimates were doubled, there is still no rational explanation to account for roughly a half million votes recorded by the equipment for Ms. Adkins.

The denial of the Open Records request was based on the contention that security could be compromised by fulfilling such a request. That contention was based on a previous case precedent known as Smith vs. Dekalb County, which occurred during the tenure of former Secretary of State Cathy Cox. In that case, a request for an archived copy of the county election database was denied for similar reasons. The security risk is unclear since only the county can access an elections database and officials have contended for years that the databases cannot be accessed remotely.

Georgia and South Carolina still use unverifiable voting equipment statewide. Ms. Adkins’ opponent, incumbent, David Nahmias, voted in the 2009 Georgia Supreme Court case to continue the use of unverifiable voting equipment.

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