[marvlus]

I'm confused. What does this event really mean, if anything, and has the recount in Ohio been completed? I thought it was about to start or that it had only recently started.

[goldstategop]

It begins tomorrow. But the Left is just going through the motions. Once 286 is announced for President Bush, reality will hit the Democrats like a cold shower.

[I'm ALL Right!]

Official date for electors to vote. The recounts wont change a thing now, not that they would if they are continued and completed.

[NeoCaveman]

I'm confused. What does this event really mean, if anything, and has the recount in Ohio been completed?

It means, game over. We won.

I thought it was about to start or that it had only recently started.

The recount starts Thursday. It is a purely academic exercise and waste of tax payers money.

[Perdogg]

Don't worry about it. Bush electors are safe harbored.

[pgkdan]

What does this event really mean, if anything, and has the recount in Ohio been completed? I thought it was about to start or that it had only recently started.

This event means everything! It's how the President of the United States is elected. This is the election that actually matters and they can recount Ohio's ballots from now until the cows come home and after today it won't make a bit of difference.

[calex59]

What does this event really mean, if anything,

It means that the election is over and the recount is useless. It was useless anyway in the fact that there is no way a recount will change the election significantly, but now the only ones who can change the results are the legislature, not the courts. However, that is all academic since there is no way Kerry can win the recount.

[xzins]

There has been no recount in Ohio. By law, the original counting process in Ohio is so painstaking that there is no hope of changing 117,000 votes -- the President's current lead.

The initial vote is not certified until all the absentee, all the provisional, and all the original ballots are checked according to prescribed legal standards for what constitutes a valid ballot. They have it defined in law down to exactly how many points of contact a chad must have to be considered a valid vote. PLUS: every county elections board is 2+2 repubs/dems. In other words, at least one of the repubs has to vote with both dems to change a vote on any single ballot or to validate a new vote on any rejected ballot.

There are not 117,000 votes that are going to be found in this state. It's simply not going to happen.