Petition: Audit the election results

[sathari]

Link: Change.org petition
Location (if relevant): N/A
Deadline: probably ASAP
Time estimate: ~1min
Requirements: N/a
Anything else: You can also call and email the Department of Justice: 202-353-1555 and  voting.section@usdoj.gov respectively (ETA: per comments, this may be the wrong place), as well as your own Congressbeings and those of the states mentioned here: Florida, Wisconsin (which is apparently already conducting an internal audit, whether as part of their election SOP or otherwise), Pennsylvania, and Michigan.

(X-posted to spoonlessactivists .)

Comments

[teaotter]

The DOJ is the wrong place to call; they don't handle this, and they don't investigate based on call volume. (See snopes)

The petition is legitimate, but as it says, it's going to the Secretary of State for each of the states and the governors.

(I'm sorry about my tone; I wrote this comment too fast. I agree that the petition is a good thing, and frankly, every state should audit the vote in every election.)

[sathari]

Thank you for correcting me. I'll strike-tag but leave the contact info there because I did see someone who had posted that they had gotten a very encouraging response when they called the DOJ--- that they were tallying calls. And I really appreciate the thoughtfulness of your apology, and no problem on tone; we're ALL gonna be on our last nerves. And cosigned that audits should be SOP!

[sathari]

Further ETA: in the course of various other actions, I ended up getting more information. On the one hand, the "call volume" article I saw was actually about the push to have the House Oversight Committee probe Trump's conflicts of interest, etc.. My bad, mea culpa.

On the other, the DOJ does have a Civil Rights Voting Section, which can be contacted here: 202-307-2767 or 1-800-253-3931 (option 5) (hattip to siderea on LJ), so they apparently do have a subdepartment that investigates issues related to voter fraud, though whether calling them matters is another issue. (And, sorry for the double comment; I just wanted to make sure the correction made it to both comms.)