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Ohio Recount Update |
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by Zachary Miller
Email: zach (nospam) ucimc.org (unverified!) |
21 Nov 2004
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Did you know that there is going to be a recount in Ohio that could reverse the presumed but not yet official results of the presidential election? David Cobb and Michael Badnarik raised $150,000 in 4 days in order to make this possible and now they need help in the form of 1400 additional volunteers to make it happen! |
For those of you wondering what is going on with the Ohio recount effort, here's an update. All of this information (with a lot more detail) is available from http://www.votecobb.org.
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See also:
http://www.votecobb.org/
http://www.badnarik.org
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Re: Ohio Recount Update |
by someone
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22 Nov 2004
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Is Kerry himself interested in this recount?
Or this recount is the way for David Cobb to gain some political influence in addition to what he is already in possession, ah?
This entire election hasn't given impression that Kerry really had wanted to be elected. it seems that like Guiliani in infamous senate race of 2000, he knew much too well when and how to step aside. |
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Re: Ohio Recount Update |
by d.o.
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22 Nov 2004
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update here:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/112204A.shtml |
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Ohio info |
by buckeye bob
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22 Nov 2004
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http://ohvotesuppression.blogspot.com/ |
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Re: Ohio Recount Update |
by someone
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23 Nov 2004
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Bush couldn't have won in Ohio, as they have lost more jobs within his four years than probably any other state. Still science teaches us that probability of ANYTHING is still above zero. Maybe, it is just the probability of Bush's REAL victory in Ohio. |
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Re: Ohio Recount Update |
by someone
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24 Nov 2004
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I, as, I am sure, more than fifty percent of other American voters, voted for Kerry on 11/2, but we-people, and our votes seem to mean nothing, as the White House is distributed between Bush's dynasty and Clinton's dynasty, and votes are counted only to confirm this priorily settled distribution, no matter how opposing real results of real voting are. Plus all media channels are acting to support this prior distribution. There are two questions currently on the table, therefore: 1. Why this web didn't really support Kerry prior to 11/2, and why does Green party need to accumulate additional money for recount, when Democrats are supposed to have more than enough money to conduct these recounts, if they are really going to happen?
In short, what are we wasting our money and votes for, if 'Democracy' is fully and unshakingly "directed and instructed" PRIOR to the general election? |
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Democrats Say Election Investigation in the Works |
by Wyatt Buchanan
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24 Nov 2004
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A group of high-ranking congressional Democrats who had called for a federal probe of the November election announced Tuesday that the Government Accountability Office would investigate irregularities with voting machines and provisional ballots nationwide.
That announcement came on the same day that the Democratic Party in Ohio said it would join the recount effort in that state that was initiated by Green and Libertarian party candidates.
Both of these developments reflect growing concern with election results and procedures that were first raised by poll watchers and individual voters and then circulated on the Internet.
"All Americans, no matter how they voted, need to have confidence that when they cast their ballot, their voice is heard," Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, declared in a statement also signed by five other Democrats.
In all, 13 Democratic members of Congress, including East Bay Reps. Barbara Lee and George Miller, have called for the GAO to investigate.
Some 57,000 election day complaints were made to the House Judiciary Committee and will be handed over to the GAO, according to the statement released Tuesday, which said the agency would examine issues related to voting machines -- including security, accuracy and fair distribution of machines at polling places -- along with problems in counting provisional ballots.
"We're not expecting to overturn any elections, but where there are problems, they should be fixed," said John Doty, press secretary for Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., one of the members who signed two letters to the GAO.
The GAO made no official announcement of the investigation, but agency staff members told congressional staffers of the probe during a meeting earlier this week, Doty said.
In Ohio, the state Democratic Party will recruit volunteers to help monitor the recount, along with volunteers organized by the other two parties.
"We are proud to stand up for Democrats all over the world who have asked us to make sure every vote gets counted," said Dennis White, Ohio Democratic Party chair, in making Tuesday's announcement.
Green Party candidate David Cobb has raised $250,000 on the Internet to pay filing fees for the recount and for the monitoring effort, said Blair Bobier, spokesman for Cobb.
The Ohio secretary of state's office has said that a change in the winner is unlikely. Bush won the state by 136,000 votes, according to preliminary numbers.
"We wouldn't think there would be that much of a difference in a recount, " said Carl LoParo, spokesman for Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, noting that county boards of election were currently auditing their results. "The boards are conducting what for all intents and purposes is a recount right now. "
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Re: Ohio Recount Update |
by Shelley Carrigan
shelleyalzbeth (nospam) yahoo.com (unverified) |
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29 Nov 2004
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Do votes count? Black box, they do not. |
