Posted on 12/23/2004 9:55:38 AM PST by Lazamataz
John F. Kerry has indicated through sources close to the Democrat party that he intends file papers supporting the Green Party/Libertarian Party recount effort in Ohio.
Kerry's filings will consist of a request for expedited discovery as it pertains to a voting machine system known as Triad Systems, and secondly, a motion for a preservation order to preserve evidence in the same matter. These filings are to be made in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.
Rep. John Conyer of Michigan and the ranking minority member of the House Judiciary Committee, has plans to ask the Federal Bureau of Investigation and a county prosecutor in Ohio today to explore "inappropriate and likely illegal election tampering" in at least one and perhaps several Ohio counties.
This follows the delivery of a sworn affidavit provided by the Hocking County deputy director of elections, Sherole Eaton, in which she alleges that a representative of Triad Governmental Systems, the Ohio firm that created and maintains the vote-counting software in dozens of Ohio counties, made several adjustments to the Hocking County tabulator last Friday, in advance of the state's recount, which is taking place this week.
Well, it's freezing here in Ohio, we're either knee-deep in snow or ice, and looking at -0 temps, so Kerry is more than welcome to jump right into the Ohio, or Lake Erie, or any other unfrozen water body, as long as he can make it to a county that isn't in a Snow emergency. I'm sure I can find someone to drive him there if he needs a ride.
Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.
;^)
W won by 6,000 in NM. The Greens and the Libs went whinning to the State Supreme Court after the SOS said they needed the entire recount cost UPFRONT because she couldn't send the sheriff after them out of state if they didn't pay up following the recount. Yesterday the supremes told them to go away.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1307240/posts
DARN IT. :(
Not to mention the fact that he needs an excuse to continue not doing his job as senator.
Hee Hee Hee! Very good.
"Concession" is a contingency not covered in the Constitution, though. It deals with votes, methods, counting, and a schedule for how it is put together.
McAuliffe, I believe, stated that Kerry's concession was not legally binding. So no need to drive Fox off the air.
They only have to pay a portion. The taxpayers foot most of the bill.
well, that was profound :^
BUMP
Yeah, it must be a Republican conspiracy, a blizzard and Christmas have nothing to do with it.
Honestly this does make me nervous. Since the 2000 re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-count, I've been saying these tactics will only get worse and more blatant as they improve their techniques. It's a portend of things to come.
NEVER underestimate the stupidity of a lefty...
Well done I say...
Even IF they could find some way-out-there wacko left wing judge to throw out the results, it wouldn't be binding. The Congress probably could just ignore it. Ever since the EC met and cast their votes and it has been signed, sealed and delivered to D.C., only Congress now has the power to accept or reject the EV. The only recourse now for the dems would be the small possibility that a judge orders that a new slate of electors be sent up to Congress for Kerry, and even then, he loses. The Congress would reject theoretical Kerry OH EVs and accept the Bush ones as long as the "proof" is illogical and partisan.
This isn't popular vote winning challenger Al Gore versus electoral winning challenger George Bush. This is challenger John Kerry versus incumbent wartime popular vote and electoral vote winning George Bush. If they are stupid enough to just play games on this one and really have nothing....it could blow back bigtime on them. Biiiiiiig time.
Exactly so. They're making the error of thinking (or rather, wanting to think) this is 2000. The dynamics are completely different, and in Bush's favor--he's the incumbent, he won the popular vote many times more than Gore did, his margin in OH, while narrow, is sizable, and we are at war. Stupid dems.
Stuff like this I no longer find amusing. It's just tiresome to me now.
many are there...
The only thing I can figure is that Badnarik is a publicity-seeking jerk. He apparently stated before the election that his goal was to cost Bush the election and that's why they'd be advertising in crucial swing states, to try to siphon votes off.
He's obviously not doing this to try to "build" the party. The greens, by doing this, have that motive in mind, since they can drain off disgruntled dems if Kerry doesn't do what they want. But as for Badnarik, the only thing he'll end up doing is pi$$ing off libertarian-leaning republican types who'll never vote for him or his party again. All he has to do is look at Ralph Nader, who got the left-wing so mad in 2000 that his national vote went from 3% to less than 1/2% this year.
Kerry? Who?
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