Posted on 12/07/2004 4:24:03 PM PST by politicalvanguard.com
With support from John Kerry's campaign, two third-party candidates for president officially asked on Tuesday for a recount in Ohio, the state that put President Bush over the top in November.
The requests, mailed to all 88 counties, were expected to arrive by Wednesday.
Generally, county election boards must agree to a recount, as long as the parties bringing the challenge pay for it. And the Green and Libertarian parties collected enough donations to cover the required $113,600, or $10 per precinct.
David Cobb, Green Party presidential candidate, said the election was full of irregularities, including uncounted provisional ballots.
"There is a possibility that George W. Bush did not win Ohio. If that is the case, it would be a crime against democracy for George Bush (news - web sites) to be sworn into office," he said.
Cobb got 186 votes in Ohio. Libertarian candidate Michael Badnarik received 14,695, or 0.26 percent of the overall total.
The request came a day after Ohio officially certified Bush as the winner of this battleground state by 118,775 votes. The president's unofficial election-night margin of 136,000 votes shrank slightly after provisional and absentee ballots were counted and errors corrected.
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Yawn....
Let's recount PA and IL too.
At least AP got it right this time "136,000 vote margin shrank slightly"
Here we go again...
A senio 65 year old CPA bean-counter used to refer to this behavior as "mental masturbation." I could continue his remarks, but I would be banned.
A recount will uncover the Green Party got 13 votes instead of 11.
Cobb got 186 votes in Ohio
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If I got only 186 votes I wouldn't try to draw ANY attention to myself. He goes from being a sore loser to a certified nut case!!
West Coast Conservative wrote:
A recount will uncover the Green Party got 13 votes instead of 11.
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More likely it was 1 instead of 11.
No one withoug a statistical chance of winning should have the right to ask for a recount unless they cover the full and total cost of that recount.
I assume the Ohio taxpayers will have to pick up the balance. $10 per precinct doesn't cover a whole lot. I hope they remember the Democrats unfondly in 2008. I hate Kerry. He is behind all of this. He just refuses to believe that he lost. Kerry is a FOOL! The Democratic party deserves him and Michael Moore and Babs and Al Sharpton, etc. etc. etc.
Ohio got caught flat footed on this one. I'll guarantee the legislature will fix this post haste
They should fix it. Can you imagine what could be done in a county with the funds that will be spent on a recount with no chance of changing the outcome.
That is probably the reason Kerry signed on to this thing is to give it some legitimacy for his PEST minions (Post Election Stress Trauma).
A state that is $ strapped having to pay 1.5 million for as one official put it "someones political hobby horse"...Yea they'll remember
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So why recount them?
You forgot to post the Geez! Not this Crap again....! image
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There are only 5 days to line up the monitors. Assuming the count goes forward, there is no way that this should be done without Republican observers. I hope the state and national parties are on the ball. Ohio FReepers, man the ramparts!
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