Posted on 11/16/2004 2:42:43 PM PST by dinok
A statewide recount of the presidential vote appears inevitable after a pair of third-party candidates said they have collected enough money to pay for it.
The recount would be conducted after the election results are certified in early December.
Libertarian Michael Badnarik and the Green Party's David Cobb said on Monday they raised more than $150,000 in four days, mostly in small contributions.
Ohio law requires payment of $10 per precinct for a recount, or $113,600 statewide.
Badnarik and Cobb said they aren't trying to overturn President Bush's 136,000-vote victory in Ohio, but just want to ensure that all votes were counted properly in the face of concerns about Election Day irregularities.
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Welcome to FR.
It seems that you have some goods statistics on Ohio vote count and provisional ballots. Can you please give us with the links for the counties that have already counted the provisional ballots?
Thank you.
No one has ever (seriously) said that Philly cast more votes than people of voting age. The claim has always been that the registration list, c. 1.1 million, was about the same as the total possible legal voters, but the number of ballots actually cast was only about 650-700,000. In other words, nowhere near the number of possible legal voters.
OMG. Too much math for me. When I was a little girl in 2nd grade my dad used to pound on the table till I got 2+2=4...I still heard him pounding the table when I read your post! :(
Agreed. I have always been supportive of the libertarians despite the drug issue, because I think they served an important if small place in the political spectrum. Frankly, they can go screw themselves from here on out.
Well, isn't that cherry picking like in Florida. How can they get an acurate count if they only pick a couple of precincts? Does the state allow this?
but Kerry would then go up to 272. right? and you only need 270. right? Oh this is not gonna happen anyways...but just wondered
Boycott Critical Review, Reason and Liberty. Call on Congress to no longer accept Cato Institute publications and to refuse to call Cato fellows and associates to testify before committees.
Let's see what happens then.
But 98% of the registered voters voting is a statistical impossiblity...and I believe that was the case in 2000. Anybody have info on that?
Yeah. Maybe they just need to recount everything in
every state. There are most likely so many skeletons in
the Democrat closet, we should find quite a bit in the
states Kerry won narrowly.
I do not trust Kerry. He has planned his whole life
around being the President, and I would not be surprised
at anything he, or the Democrats, might try.
r/e Post #184 Here is a 5th possibility:
E) The Greens & Libertarians collect $150,000. Blackwell
will certify the results on December 1st showing Bush still wins by a decent margin. The Greens & Libertarians will then say they changed their mine about asking for a recount and instead pocket all the whole $150,000.
If they're truly concerned about ensuring every vote was counted, then why don't they pay to have every vote, in every precinct, in every state counted instead of just in Ohio? Hmmmmm?
Agin, this is not to say that some fraud doesn't happen -- but you can't prove it by inventing phantom 98% turnout figures.
They will do anything to steal an election.
RECOUNT PA!
I don't get it - why do they only charge $10/precinct - why don't those that want the recount have to foot the whole bill?
I doubt that Soros would spend money on a lost cause. He knows who won. The small amounts were given by the tinfoil hat-wearing DUh! creatures. The outcome will show that the result was correct and if there are irregularities proven, it just might improve things next time around.
Right, when they finally realize that yes, they did really lose their faces will be as long as Kerry's.
"Its not about Kerry winning Ohio. Its about Recounts, Lawyers, Courts... Its about putting doubt in peopls minds about Bush.. "
that's the scheme.
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