Green Attorneys Ask Ohio Election Directers to Start Recount Now

[truehawk]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NOVEMBER 18, 2004
10:01 AM
CONTACT: Green Party of the United States
Blair Bobier, 541-929-5755
[e-mail]

Ohio Recount Must Start Now


WASHINGTON -- November 18 -- Attorneys for Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb and Libertarian Michael Badnarik have sent letters to each Ohio county election director asking them to begin preparations immediately for the recount of the presidential vote. Although a demand for a recount is usually not made until after the vote has been certified, there are concerns that waiting that long would not allow enough time for the recount to be completed before the Ohio presidential electors meet on December 13 in Columbus.

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http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/1118-08.htm

[tbuddha]

1. Let the stonewalling begin!

Sounds like the real fight just started.

[davidwparker]

4. backbone

out of 3rd party candidates. picking up the cause the dem leadership should have. the dem silence shows just how much they enjoy the status quo.

[Carolab]

2. Let's POUND the Ohio BoE!!

C'mon DU'ers--LET 'EM HAVE IT!!!

[henslee]

7. A ton of snail mail would be awesome. got a feeling they just hit delete

on the emails. Who's got the address?

[Timebound]

3. Cobb and Badnarik are very persistent folks...

...if anyone can get anything done, I believe they can.

[ValleyGirl]

5. Awesome

This is great! It's nice to see Cobb/Badnarik are getting an early start w/ the pressuring. They'll probably have to make lots of noise to get this off the ground even, let alone finished in time.

[Sadie5]

6. Just a stupid question

If a recount is started right away, of course the paper ballots can be recounted, but what about those Diebold machine totals. Will those votes be counted off of those very same machines as before, which would change nothing, or is there another way to count the machine votes. A stupid question, and perhaps I'm not making myself clear. Thanks

[rhite5]

14. Not a stupid question at all .... but I believe paper ballots...

should be available for all precincts in Ohio. This is what I understood from Dennis Kucinich.

New Hampshire and Florida are different story.

[ValleyGirl]

16. Diebold

I am sure that I am nowhere near as up on all this info as others are, but I believe I read that the only Diebold machines in OH are the optical scan readers and Ohio doesn't use any (or very few) touch screen audit-less machines. So I assume they can manually recount these ballots without the machines (?) I don't even know what they do in a recount in Ohio, whether it's machine counted or manually counted. Hopefully they won't be using the machines!

[newyawker99]

17. Hi ValleyGirl!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[ValleyGirl]

19. Thank you New Yawker! :) n/t

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[simply_the_best]

8. It Can Happen

My prayers are being answered lately, let this be the next one please:)

[New Earth]

9. hmm

i thought a recount automatically meant a hand recount, where possible? at least that's what happened in Florida in 2000, isn't it?

[newyawker99]

18. Hi simply_the_best!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[PeterPan]

10. i got to ask cobb about this on laura flanders' your call this morning

and he said they were going to do something like this
its a long shot but its the only shot right now
i totally respect cobb for this!

[mirandapriestly]

11. These guys are the ones who should be in the White House

instead of that evil chimp

[PeterPan]

12. i'll second that

[Wordie]

13. This seems like the only way. Can they get a judge involved?

Am I right in understanding that when OH rewrote their law after the 2000 fiasco, that the provision adding this waiting period was added? They already waited before beginning to count provisionals, and now an additional waiting period. It isn't right. Is there any sort of legal argument that would stand up, forcing them to begin now?

[mdb]

15. Ohio looks like a statewide hand recount.

http://www.washingtondispatch.com/spectrum/archives/000729.html

NH on the other hand a whole 11 precincts. This should have been at least a county.