Let's get the other OH and FL presidential candidates to ask for recounts!

[ElementaryPenguin]

They are each entitled to recounts in races in which major voting irregularities are discovered, are they not?? We don't really need Kerry and Edwards, do we?

[BayStateBoy]

1. Any Candidate Can Ask For A Recount, Although in Some States

the vote margin must be very close, like 5%

[LisaL]

2. It's expensive. Bandarik was asked and he refused -

said it would cost too much money. Nader is not on the ballot in OH, only in Florida.

[ElementaryPenguin]

3. We need a Soros to supply financing.

The DNC should have some money left. If the tables were turned - the GOP sure as hell would get it financed!

[Senior citizen]

4. ONLY third party candidates will request recounts.

The candidates of the entrenched, corrupt two-party system happen to like the fraudulent, corrupt status quo. It keeps them from having to worry about any genuine, principled, populist opposition.

C'mon now, given a choice between two pro-war candidates, which one do you think most people who know that there were no WMDs, that Iraq had no connection to 9/11, and that we are guilty of war crimes there, prefer? Why, if people's vote actually counted, all the people who don't bother to vote might decide it was worth doing, and since they don't have any ties to machine politics, there's no telling what they might do.

There was a black woman on the Oprah Winfrey show the day Oprah was encouraging everyone to register to vote, who absolutely refused. I'll bet she's laughing her head off right now.

I had principles too, when I was younger. I remember a classroom where the instructor listed the candidates on the blackboard and asked everyone to vote. When he counted, one vote was missing and I raised my hand when he asked who didn't vote. "Okay," he said, "I'll put Mickey Mouse on the board too. Now will you vote?"

This wasn't long after Kennedy had been assassinated. I said that I wouldn't vote for a decent candidate, because they'd only be killed, and I didn't want to vote for a rotten one, so I wasn't going to vote. Some people lose their memory as they get older--I seem to have lost my brains.