Challenge Of Ohio's Electors Won't Change The Election

Tampa Tribune ^ | 12/23/2004 | Editorial

[Retired Chemist]

U. S. Rep. John Conyers, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, seems determined, despite evidence to the contrary, to raise voters' suspicions that the presidential election in Ohio was rigged.

There were problems in the Buckeye State, but the irregularities we have seen so far do not rise to the level of fraud. A prolonged effort to expose corruption in the voting process and sustain the specter of another tainted election is not constructive and only threatens more political divisiveness.

Yet Conyers is bent on stirring the water. He told Keith Olbermann, host of MSNBC's Countdown, that he and other Democrats may formally challenge Ohio's 20 electors when their votes for President Bush are opened and counted before a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6.

It takes a member of the Senate to join a member of the House to challenge the electoral vote. Conyers has not committed to being the House member, and we have not heard of any senator who will take the leap.

Nor do we see the need. In post-mortems of the vote in Ohio, experts have identified problems, but nothing that should challenge Bush's victory there. It could be that recounts would cut into the president's numbers, but even John Kerry's team did not think their candidate could overcome Bush's 119,000- vote margin.

We don't mean to be dismissive of the problems in Ohio or the need to examine them, but it appears Conyers' meetings are less about solving problems than roiling the electorate.

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[illumini]

http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/ron_paul_it_cant_happen_here.htm

Ron Paul suggests we be on guard.

[conservativewasp]

The second ammendment prevents the kind of thing Ron Paul is worried about.

[b4its2late]

Conyers has not committed to being the House member

He should be committed....

[KJacob]

but it appears Conyers' meetings are less about solving problems than roiling the electorate.

You think?

[TheBattman]

What's so hard to believe about the Ohio election being rigged? I'm certain it was - the Democrats just didn't rig enough precincts and votes to be successful - people with some morals and courage showed up in numbers sufficient to surpass the "fix" put in by the RATs.

[gop_gene]

Bettter yet, why is it so hard to believe Bush won OH? It's probably THE most republican of the 1st-tier swing states, so to think they'd vote republican doesn't exactly require a huge leap of faith.