(Flashback) Democrats challenge Ohio electoral votes (2004)

Cnn.com ^ | 1/6/05

[cotton1706]

widespread "irregularities" on Election Day, a group of Democrats in Congress objected Thursday to the counting of Ohio's 20 electoral votes, delaying the official certification of the 2004 preside rntial election results.

The move was not designed to overturn the re-election of President Bush, said Ohio Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones and California Sen. Barbara Boxer, who filed the objection.

The objecting Democrats, most of whom are House members, said they wanted to draw attention to the need for aggressive election reform in the wake of what they said were widespread voter problems.

In a letter to congressional leaders Wednesday, members of the group said they would take the action because a new report by Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee found "numerous, serious election irregularities," particularly in Ohio, that led to "a significant disenfranchisement of voters."

"How can we possibly tell millions of Americans who registered to vote, who came to the polls in record numbers, particularly our young people ... to simply get over it and move on?" Tubbs Jones told reporters.

The House of Representatives and Senate met Thursday afternoon in a constitutionally mandated session to count the electoral votes. Vice President Dick Cheney, in his role as president of the Senate, presided over the session.

The results from each state, read in alphabetical order, were ticked through quickly until Ohio was called, and a clerk read the letter of objection from Boxer and Tubbs Jones.

Cheney then ordered the lawmakers back to their respective chambers for two hours of debate on the merits of the challenge.

It is only the second such challenge since the current rules for counting electoral votes were established in 1877. The last was in 1969 and it concerned a so-called "faithless elector," according to congressional researchers.

[Steely Tom]

Completely different situation. In 2004, a Democrat was to benefit from the challenge, so obviously it was right and just.

Now, in 2020, it is a Republican who would benefit, so the challenge is wrong and evil, and treasonous.

[Bogey78O]

The 2004 “irregularities” were exit polls not matching ballot data, if I recall.

[God luvs America]

remember it well...she whined about people being forced to stand on line.

[Secret Agent Man]

And polls are not even legit, they are just whatever people will tell you

[Lowell1775]

OHIO PING!
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(Flashback) Democrats challenge Ohio electoral votes (2004)
Cnn.com ^ | 1/6/05
Posted on 12/16/2020, 7:06:21 PM by cotton1706