Thune holds off on recount (chad checking a possibility)

Rapid City (SD) Journal ^ | 11-07-02 | Denise Ross

[jwalburg]

The boards would convene Monday, Nov. 25, and have no deadline to complete their work. Board members would examine each ballot physically, looking for an official ballot stamp and any irregularities. State law spells out how to identify and handle various kinds of disputed ballots, he said. The law sets up a two-person resolution board to examine ballots that machines have trouble counting, he said.

Will hoards of Dem chad-checking lawyers come in to help out, I wonder.

[MrPeanut]

Thune came up at the President's news conference. I think he is about to get an appointment somewhere in this adiministration for showing alot of class. The American people do not want leaders with recounts- they want leaders with class.

[Interesting Times]

Really?

Perhaps "the American people" you so speak for so presumptuously would like to see vote fraud identified, the election results corrected, and the perps sent to prison.

[nutmeg]

Bump to read later

[marajade]

Bush owes him a job in his administration. He left the house to run for the senate at Bush's urging...

[newzhawk]

I think you are correct- in your comment about class vs recount- the fraud should still be investigated- and I am not sure how in a three way race Johnson came up with over 160000 votes when most of the other Democrats had approx 130-150000 votes and this was a three way split - very strange numbers - I keep trying to explain it but it doesn't work out right-but maybe he could be placed somewhere important and save face and come back to clean Daschle's clock later

[BreitbartSentMe]

Thune came up at the President's news conference. I think he is about to get an appointment somewhere in this adiministration for showing alot of class

I think Bush should appoint him to a high-level position, and task him with investigating all allegations of voter fraud!

[Pardon Me]

Here is an address for a poll from the Sioux Falls Argus leader asking "Should Thune ask for a recount?
http://www.argusleader.com/
Anyone that is more computer literate than I am may want to post this as a poll to freep!

[jwalburg]

A three way split with a Libertarian candidate who bowed out weeks before the election.

[SamAdams76]

Count me as one who wants a recount. There was no problem with having a recount in Florida either. In fact, it was the proper thing to do. The problems came into play when the 'Rats tried to restrict the recount to their strong areas, tried to invalidate absentee ballots (from the military), swallowed chads and otherwise tried to manufacture Gore votes while invalidating Bush votes.

[Tree of Liberty]

If Thune does not contest the outcome, what are the chances he'll run against Dash-hole in '04?

[SoDak]

It's hard to even post about this yet, I still feel like my heart got ripped out yesterday morning. All the blood, sweat, and tears and we lost. It might not have been so bad even if we got beat by a landslide, but to get beat by 500 votes feels awful. America still won, in the larger picture, and in SD, Repubs won every other election of consequence, but this one will be hard to get over. If fraud is found on the res, it needs to be exposed.

[who knows what evil?]

In 1978, then-Congressman Tom Daschle defeated Leo Thorsness, ultimately by 139 votes, in the state's former first congressional district in eastern South Dakota.

The potential consequences of voter fraud...if 140 of these votes were fraudulent, and they had been CAUGHT, we might NOT have had Tom Daschle to contend with the past two years (or before that, as well...who knows? Where might JOHNSON be in twenty years, if we let him get away with it?)

[RooRoobird14]

The main thing I'm concerned about here is a full investigation of alleged voter fraud--it they find it, it needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I'm SICK of these crooked Scumocrats and their ballot box stuffing.

[jwalburg]

The potential consequences of voter fraud...if 140 of these votes were fraudulent, and they had been CAUGHT, we might NOT have had Tom Daschle to contend with the past two years (or before that, as well...who knows? Where might JOHNSON be in twenty years, if we let him get away with it?)

Now that is something to meditate on for a while. Good point.

[Carry_Okie]

Allowing the Slave Party to continue to get away with fraud is not "class." A "leader" would get this country to acknowledge and correct its problem, just as any decent parent corrects their children. Not to do so leaves us a laughing stock around the world, not to mention imperils the Republican majority in the Senate to a Chaffee bailout.

No. Face the problem squarely and fix it.

[KriegerGeist]

"Perhaps "the American people" you so speak for so presumptuously would like to see vote fraud identified, the election results corrected, and the perps sent to prison."

I agree and could not have stated it better.
We as a people and this nation and the Senate needs a man like John Thune and not this liberal, fraud Johnson who woon by cheating and is brother-in-har with his butt-buddy Tommy Daschle. South Dakota Republicans, Conservatives, fellow Freepers deserve better! And "better" is not Johnson.
Plus, we also need a larger margin of majority in case of unfortunate accidents (Clintons still have the power to bring down planes and cause suicides) or there is the "jumping" Senators like Jeffords and soon Chafee.

[Attillathehon]

I think there was a lot less vote fraud this time because the Dems were afraid that Ashcroft would prosecute them. If he doesn't go after the perps in South Dakota, the Dems will be up to their old tricks in the 2004 election. Vote integrity is extremely important and every single allegation of vote fraud, no matter how small or apparently inconsequential, must be investigated and the perps prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

[bankwalker]

MrPeanut signed up 2002-11-04.

[Lurking2Long]

Nelson, the state's longtime elections supervisor, said he knew of no other reports of voting irregularities beyond a few unfounded rumors floating around Wednesday.

Could one of you more computer savvy Freepers please send this "supervisor" the text of one of the more salient South Dakota threads so he can see that there are more than just "rumors" to this debacle!