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Carlo LoParo, spokesman for Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, said the actual cost to county election boards combined will be about $1.5 million.

Florida law mandated a recount because of the closeness of the election.

Hope the taxpayers of Ohio enjoy picking up the tab for this political pandering.

I'm convinced that's what it is, the Green Party smells blood in the water from the wounded Dems and is hoping to peel away some of the Dems so to make themselves more "relevant".

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Hope the taxpayers of Ohio enjoy picking up the tab for this political pandering.

The taxpayers aren't paying for this...the parties that request the recount have to pay the state.