I wouldn't exactly call this an overwhelming flood of requests for a well-staffed state bureaucracy to deal with. What's that, between 1 and 3 emails per day? Golly, gee, that really overhwhelms them with work!
And an email costs nothing to answer. Maybe one precious minute of a staffer's time.
Moreover, the "repeat" offenders are probably mostly those seeking not the BC itself, but seeking legitimate information, which the department is obliged to provide by law.
There are actually closer to an average of 1-2 requests per week for anything directly related to Obama, according to the DOH’s response to a request for all the UIPA requests made in an 18-month period.
And money is obviously their concern - since they refuse to use e-mail to answer requests for index data and instead insist on the copying costs and processing time required by snail-mail. /sarc
You are correct about the “repeat offenders”. And the DOH has deleted from the communications history my e-mails which show that I was requesting something required by law to be released that they refused to give me even while saying they had already given me it.