Posted on 11/17/2004 4:20:26 AM PST by bobjam
A statewide recount of the presidential vote appears inevitable after a pair of third-party candidates said they have collected enough money to pay for it.
The recount would be conducted after the election results are certified in early December.
Libertarian Michael Badnarik and the Green Party's David Cobb said on Monday they raised more than $150,000 in four days, mostly in small contributions.
Ohio law requires payment of $10 per precinct for a recount, or $113,600 statewide.
Badnarik and Cobb said they aren't trying to overturn President Bush's 136,000-vote victory in Ohio, but just want to ensure that all votes were counted properly in the face of concerns about Election Day irregularities.
"Our bottom line is to stand up for the integrity of the voting process because the voting process is the heart of the democratic process," said Blair Bobier, spokesman for Cobb.
Bobier said it will be worth the price to ensure the final outcome can be trusted.
Carlo LoParo, spokesman for Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, said the actual cost to county election boards combined will be about $1.5 million.
Thanks for the heads up. He looks like an equal opportunity
ignorer. He is ignoring all posts to him equally.
So one of the most insignificant and irrelevent laws ever passed gets your panties in a twist? LoL the Swifties showed just how ineffective and absurd the CFR law really is. Plus, it is entirely constitutional how do you get the idea that restricting political PARTIES is anti-constitutional particular give the fact that the Founders despised the whole idea of political parties.
After all the howls from those who have not read the law subsided I told them it was nothing to worry about and only restricted idiots. I would like to see more restrictions on idiot speech personally.
One thing this last election proves is there was NO lack of free speech.
But I am sure you have NOT read this law and prefer the pseudo-arguments of the panic-stricken Chicken Littles who abound here.
Why shouldn't it be?
because we don't have a national election for president - we have individual state elections, each governed by the rules and methods of that state, that collectively elect the president through the electoral college.
Most assuredly so.
I give up. Are you saying that we SHOULD count every vote, or are you saying we SHOULD NOT count every vote?
That's the Boca Raton Psychiatrist doing all the work for the distraught losers of Nov 2nd (P.E.S.T.)
A once per decade event. Now they'll go back to spewing hate, bragging about wanting to raise taxes, and try to make marriage between man and horse legal.
This is very true.
Next-door Pennsylvania was actually closer. Ditto for New Hampshire. But those are NOT going to be recounted. We only recount in jurisdictions where DEMOCRATS might gain votes. Jennings, Brokaw, Brown and Rather say nothing, because God did not see fit to gift them with brains.
That's the Boca Raton Psychiatrist doing all the work
for the distraught losers of Nov 2nd (P.E.S.T.)LOL!!
all I was commenting on was your comment about the supreme court ruling. the "uniform standards" thing applies within a state. If Ohio is recounting, they must have a uniform standard, that has nothing to do with Pennsylvannia. If Penn engages in a recount, then they must have a standard. But the fact that Ohio is recounting, means nothing to Penn. Otherwise, if just one state recounted, the entire nation would have to recount.
I understand your point. I think that the same argument can be made with respect to PA, though.
"the actual cost to county election boards combined will be about $1.5 million."
I guess they should have done their job lawfully in the first place.
Hijacked? More like they sold out to Soros. This is the first time the LP has flashed this kind of money around in a Presidential campaign. They sure didn't get it from selling brownies.
Blackwell, the Sec of State of Ohio patted himself on the back in a Washington Times article, just to quiet the uninformed.
Yes, I'm sure the LP has nothing but pure intentions. Forgive me when I don't fall for it.
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