Challenges Planned to Ohio's Presidential Vote Totals

The Washington Post ^ | Monday, December 6, 2004 | Associated Press

[SunkenCiv]

Green and Libertarian party candidates have raised the $113,600 required to pay for a recount.

I've seen that Heinz makes Green catsup, but I didn't know they had a "Libertarian" version...

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[Twinkie]

I AGREE. If they want recounts, then let's just have some
recounts in other states that Kerry won. Perhaps there
was a mistake in those states as well, long lines, not
enough machines, Democrat voter fraud, etc. When it comes
to voter fraud, the Democrats have always been champs,
hands down. I was reading an old Reader's Digest a while
back, one going back several years which chronicled the
expertise of the Democrat Party at voter fraud, told how
they did it.

[bill1952]

Exactly right.

I propose that we all support this recount effort that will cost Ohio millions.
Perhaps we could egg them on to be as obnoxious and snotty to the Ohioans as they were to us in Florida, in 2000.

I laugh every time I think on our revenge here, and the way that we handed Kerry his ass, while all the polls were calling Florida "too close to call."

If Florida is any example, the dems will lose Ohio forever, just like they did Florida.

[PatriotGirl827]

Hi Bill - fellow Floridian here - Palm Beach Gardens.

[TNCMAXQ]

I think that 90% statement is true. Only us political junkies even know these looney lefties are claiming the Ohio vote was stolen. If Kerry were to suddenly come out with some overt challenge to the vote at this late stage it would surely look like he was trying to steal the whole election and it would doom what little chance he has in '08. Plus with GWB taking an outright majority of the national vote any effort to somehow oeverturn this based on the votes of one state would go over very badly.

[randita]

If there are long lines, you stand in line until your turn to vote comes, and then you vote. By law, the polls must stay open until everyone who was in line before the cutoff time votes. If you give up and go home, you don't vote, and nobody can figure out how to count your vote later, because there is no vote to count.

There were long lines EVERYWHERE in both conservative and liberal leaning districts. Two hour wait in some precincts in my district.

How would you prove that the long lines deterred someone from voting? There would only be anecdotal evidence unless cameras were trained on all polling places and even then, it could be a set up.

[Owen]

There will be no one in the courtroom to tell judges that there were long lines everywhere. FR is not mounting an effort at rebuttal. Absent rebuttal we start losing court cases.

[ride the whirlwind]

Shaking head in disbelief ping.

[You Dirty Rats]

Duh. Did these fools not watch the news. There were long lines all over the country. This is an unintentional back-haned slap at their own party. They are saying that the Dims don't have enough devotion to wait in long lines. There is also an implication that the system must be change since the dims had to wait in line.

To be fair, their was one very bad problem with long lines in Knox County. Kenyon College has about 1600 students, but they had only two voting machines. The last vote was cast at about 3:40 am. Since the polls closed at 7:30, that was over an eight hour delay; some kids waited on line ten hours. I'd be quite upset myself over that.

But they clearly did get to vote and it didn't affect the result.

[DollyCali]

Pure Idiocy.

[sitetest]

Dear Torie,

"If you think a margin of 118,000 versus 136,000 is 'much' closer, whatever. I think it is abuse of the English language. Would not a better term be 'slightly closer?'"

I'd call it "modestly closer." A bit more than "slightly," not as much as "moderately."

LOL.


sitetest

[You Dirty Rats]

There will be no one in the courtroom to tell judges that there were long lines everywhere. FR is not mounting an effort at rebuttal. Absent rebuttal we start losing court cases.

We are not going to lose court cases on this. The Ohio Supreme Court is solidly Republican. I saw Chief Justice Thomas Moyer at the Bush/Cheney rally at Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati on Halloween. This is nothing like Florida 2000. Bush is still well outside the Margin of Lawyer here.

[LoneGOPinCT]

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Our constituency isn't smart enough to vote correctly, legally and in a timely manner so there has clearly been a effort to disenfranchise them."

[KevinDavis]

I had to wait in line and I live in Illinois.. Bush lost that state!

[Camachee]

citing documented cases of long lines

Long lines? Let's throw out the whole election and start over. We can't have long lines. /s

[TBP]

While it would be helpful to have more voting machines in use, that would require more pollwatchers. Then the Dimmycraps would be screaming about voter intimidation due to the unprecedented number of pollwatchers.

So instead of that, they're complaining about the long lines.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

I would like to see a study done comparing the numbers of voting machines in all the precincts of Ohio from year to year. With special emphasis given to the number or numbers of machines in the black precincts.

Say comparing this year to 1992, 1996 when klintoon won Ohio. Bet there were fewer machines in those precincts than there were this year.

[writmeister]

Isn't the number of polling places and voting machines the responsibility of the individual counties? I know that is the case in Texas.

If the Rats are mad about long lines in Franklin and Cuyahoga, should not they take it up with their Rat-controlled local government.