Posted on 12/08/2004 1:43:58 PM PST by ambrose
Congressmen, Jesse Jackson Investigating Ohio Election Complaints
Jackson Says Election Not Over
UPDATED: 2:42 PM EST December 8, 2004
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson said Wednesday the burden is on Congress to investigate countless reports of election irregularities in Ohio and elsewhere.
While he stopped short of calling for a delay in the Inauguration, Jackson repeatedly said the election is not over.
"The legal challenges cannot stop. There should be a debate in Congress about what happened," said the former Democratic presidential candidate and founder of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition.
Jackson's comments came as Rep. John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat, convened a meeting to examine the accusations.
Conyers, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, said Democratic lawmakers have received tens of thousands of reports of voting problems.
Those included disparities in vote totals for Democrats on the same ballot, too few voting machines in Democrat-leaning urban precincts, organized campaigns directing voters to the wrong polling place and confusion over the counting of provisional ballots cast by those whose names did not appear in the books of registered voters at polling places.
The Government Accountability Office said it would study the 2004 election, and Conyers said Democrats on the Judiciary Committee plan to review each reported problem.
Also at the hearing, John Bonifaz of the National Voting Rights Institute said his group would keep pursuing a recount in Ohio. He called on Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell to delay the Electoral College meeting, scheduled for Monday, until the recount is complete.
Blackwell was invited to Wednesday's forum but declined to attend, said spokesman Carlo LoParo.
"Ohio had a great election. There were issues with long lines but I think you'll find the entire country experienced delays," LoParo said, dismissing reports of Election Day irregularities.
"It's absurd," LoParo said. "I don't know that the rhetoric matches the facts."
Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry said he wants to ensure there are no doubts in future elections.
"It's critical that we investigate and understand any and every voting irregularity anywhere in our country, not because it would change the outcome of the election but because Americans have to believe that their votes are counted in our democracy," Kerry said in a statement.
I'd like to formally charge that John Conyer's re-election is suspicious as well. LET THE RECOUNTS IN HIS DISTRICT CONTINUE!
Jesse Jack-a$$on is at it again.
These people are delusional. The election is over here. Bush is up by something like 120,000 votes. They aren't going to overturn that. The courts will never consider taking on a case where there is that kind of disparity. Jackson is only hurting himself and the Rats by pulling this kind of crap. People are just tired of it (I know I am).
What to investigate? Clearly, some Democrats voted for Bush, before continuing on to vote for Democrat candidates lower down on the ballot.
"Ma, ma, where's my pa?"
We Ahians dont need no Meechicken big wig tellin us wat to do. We are just a big numba of hillbillah rednecks who are too stoopid too vote. We mad em mad by votin' for Bush. It was easiah to spell than Kerriois.
Yeah, countless reports.........
He's just trying to keep his mug out there, lest people forget who the heck he is! What a 'tard!
We need to purge this country of the Bolsheviks.
Was jessie also calling for an investigation in Wisconsin. I can cite him an example. In Madison I believe it was, a son of a prominent dim and a dim activist from Virginia were caught on election morning slashing the tires of 40 vans that the Republicans planned to use to get out our vote.
Jesse Jackson protesting election results after a Republican wins?
This is "hugh and series"
El Parce
"Jackson Says Election Not Over"
Fortunately idiot, you're not the one who has say over that. The election IS over. Hopefully one day we'll be saying the same about your career and that if your equally deranged father. If you can't accept that the voice of the people has spoken, move to North Korea where you won't be bothered with democratic governance. They're more in keeping with your ideology anyway.
Right after they're done looking into countless reports of UFO sightings and countless reports of Elvis sightings.
countless reports = the incessant bleating of losers.
If they had a shred of credible evidence it would have been page one, above the fold in the NYT every day since the election.
And so is he.
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