Posted on 11/07/2004 7:26:23 PM PST by ShinerBock
NEW YORK - Here’s an interesting little sidebar of our system of government confirmed recently by the crack Countdown research staff: no Presidential candidate’s concession speech is legally binding. The only determinants of the outcome of election are the reports of the state returns boards and the vote of the Electoral College. That’s right. Richard Nixon may have phoned John Kennedy in November, 1960, and congratulated him through clenched teeth. But if the FBI had burst into Kennedy headquarters in Chicago a week later and walked out with all the file cabinets and a bunch of employees with their raincoats drawn up over their heads, nothing Nixon had said would’ve prevented him, and not JFK, from taking the oath of office the following January.
This is mentioned because there is a small but blood-curdling set of news stories that right now exists somewhere between the world of investigative journalism, and the world of the Reynolds Wrap Hat. And while the group’s ultimate home remains unclear - so might our election of just a week ago. Stories like these have filled the web since the tide turned against John Kerry late Tuesday night....
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Do they know who they're f'n with?
Yes, Keith, it's too bad we can't have the confidence in the count in Warren County, Ohio, that we can in, say, Philadephia and Detroit, or for that matter, Youngstown.
shock shlock journalism herr olbermann, you do your MSM proud.
Is there anything we can do to help perpetuate this? It really makes them look small and ineffective AND every dollar they send to this loser is dollar that does not go to MaCaulliff (not sure of the spelling).
Save your money. Diebold has plenty.
Just sit back, and watch the fun.
Nobody liked him doing sports either. The dimwit should be clerking at a shoe store somewhere.
Wow! A female Michael Moore!
Damn! If Moore and this broad can do it, so can I! I think I'll pose as a lefty and tell the DUmmies I have absolute proof that President Bush stole the election. All they have to do is send me $20 per DUmmy and I promise I'll do my best to "prove" that Bush/Cheney stole the election!
LOL! P.T. Barnum must have been a lurker at DUmmie Underground!
This lunacy is actually worth watching because Diebold is such a well-known company and the clowns arrayed against them are a financial and psychological house of cards.
By the way, I'll remind the DUmmies that it only costs 37 cents to send me $20.00.
That should seal it!
It does seem interesting to me that this Bev came up with these charges--and a 30 minute video about them--so quickly, and THEN asked for donations for the urgent recount efforts. Sounds like she was ready to bank in on the desperation in the DUmpster.
I won't be happy until Ohio certifies the votes.
I won't be happy until Inaugration Day. I don't trust the Dems or the media to play fair, and if they smell any sort of opportunity to hurt Bush, they'll take it.
Forgot to mention that her thesis is logical idiocy, because if the "hackers" know how to get into the servers and to delete votes and audit records, then they also know how to create false audit records.
This crap will happen after every election thanks to Al Gore that the rats lose. The process will magically be kosher as soon as they win an election.
Wonderful, I'm in. I can build the necessary wwww infrastructure. Private message me please.
Note to Keith: Who said a concession speech was legally binding, anyway? Who in their right mind believes it is? You are saying something that most everyone knows (or should know). The only thing Kerry was implicitly saying was that he was not going to challenge the outcome ala Al Gore. Smart - he was behind by millions of votes.
So what I am saying is that your point is pointless. :)
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