Jenerette, a FReeper candidate featured on the freerepublic.com home page, is responding to some potential dirty tricks played against her. Even if she cannot hope to overturn the results, it is worth it if she can clean up some of the abuses for the next time. Given some of the strange count modifications due to programming errors, etc., asking for a recount (assuming she can afford it) might not be a bad strategy. I'll give her the benefit of the doubt.
But how does attacking the newspaper do that?