Posted on 11/11/2004 5:11:59 PM PST by ambrose
Sheila Lennon: Nader has till Friday to pay $2,000 filing fee
November 10, 2004
By Sheila Lennon / The Providence (R.I.) Journal
4:50 p.m. Wednesday (Blogroll)
Nader has till Friday to pay $2,000 filing fee to launch N.H. recount:
Independent Presidential candidate Ralph Nader has until Friday to pay a $2,000 filing fee to request a recount of New Hampshire votes and to pledge to cover the costs of the count.
Kevin Zeese, a spokesman for Nader's campaign, said that N.H. Secretary of State Phil Gardner, a Democrat, has agreed to the new deadline.
Nader held a press conference in Washington, D.C., this afternoon to confirm his faxed request for a recount, filed one minute before last Friday's 5 p.m. deadline.
Zeese said Nader will ask that votes be recounted in particular wards — urban areas where 78 percent of the votes were cast using the Diebold AccuVote system.
Zeese, reached by telephone this afternoon, said the recount would begin as soon as possible after these conditions were met on Friday.
A press release offers details:
On November 5, The Nader/Camejo campaign filed a challenge seeking a hand recount of the New Hampshire ballots at the request of numerous voting rights advocates. Striking inconsistencies exist between the vote as reported on the AccuVote Diebold Machines and exit polls and voting trends in New Hampshire. These irregularities in the reported vote count favor President George W. Bush by 5% to 15% over what was expected. Problems in these electronic voting machines and optical scanners are being reported in machines in a variety of states.
Nader says major electoral reforms are needed to ensure that every vote counts, including the most unlikely to be counted – those of third party and independent candidates’ votes. Reforms should ensure that all voters are represented through electoral reforms like instant run-off voting, binding none-of-the-above options, and proportional representation; that non-major party candidates have a ballot access chance to run for office and participate in debates; and that public elections be publicly financed.
Zeese said he didn't know how much a recount would cost — it depends on the time involved and at what point they stop the count — but that they were soliciting donations at votenader.org. Those who wish to contribute can click on a Recount button there that ensures these funds are kept separate from campaign donations.
The press release also notes pointedly,
Nader called upon John Edwards and John Kerry to be serious about their pre-election and post-election promises: “Our offices are being flooded with faxes and e-mails asking for assistance in resolving these irregularities – a lot of them are citizens who voted for you. You must now take action to give our nation the fair accounting it deserves from the 2004 election and to protect democratic processes in future elections. Although your party extended considerable funds and manpower to unconstitutionally drive us off the Ohio ballot, in the spirit of good government, I urge you to make this effort now.”
Here's the press release.
Zeese confirmed that voting activist Bev Harris of blackboxvoting.org also spoke, mentioning suspected problems on the central vote-counting servers. He said Harris's group would also be soliciting donations for the recount.
Updated: Here's another donation link at Help America Recount. You may use PayPal from this link.
Related: Voting activist Ida Briggs has analyzed the New Hampshire results and offers voting results, data and charts. An somewhat shorter version can be found at the National Ballot Integrity Project Discussion Forum.
Related: Congressmen send second letter to GAO requesting investigation, detailing voting complaints. Congressmen John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), Robert C. Scott (D-VA), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Melvin Watt (D-NC), Robert Wexler (D-FL.) and Rush Holt (D-NJ) have sent the following to Comptroller General David M. Walker at the General Accounting Office:
...we indicated we would follow up with additional information as it becomes avaliable. To that end, we would also request that you review and evaluate the following:
More than 30,000 complaints have been noted on one website: http://voteprotect.org/index.php?display=EIRMapNation. We request that you evaluate a sampling of these incidents.
Enclosed are more than 265 specific complaints. These can also be found at: http://www.votersunite.org/electionproblems.asp? offset=240&catid=&showall=&sort=date. These include the following:
In Sarper County, Nebraska, a computer problem doubled the votes in half the country's precincts, adding 3000 phantom votes to the totals.
In Guilford County, North Carolina vote totals were so large that the tabulation computer threw numbers away. Retallying changed two outcomes and awarded an additional 22,000 to John Kerry.
In Broward County, Florida, at least 21 voting machines malfunctioned
There's more. Here's the complete letter in pdf format.
Updated 12:26 p.m. Bev Harris of BlackBoxVoting.org is to join Nader for the press conference below.
12:07 Nader to hold press conference on his N.H. recount request at 1 p.m.
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how much did kerry win NH by?
I agree. This could do away with Motor Voter and tighten voter restrictions across the country. Huge blow to the Rats.
Maybe we ought to help 'em.
SECRET:
It was likely that the Democrats were leaked the locations
of the exit polls and sent extra Democrat voters to those
locations so the numbers would bounce up for Kerry and
create the early "go with the winner" vote that psychology
says people like to do. . only it didn't work that way
this time.
So heavy Democrat precinct workers and Dem SOS fixed the election for Bush, RIGHT
So heavy Democrat precinct workers and Dem SOS fixed the election for Bush, RIGHT
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