Edwards Promises to Count Every Vote -- Because the Votes Belong to Us the Voters.

[JDPriestly]

"If you are the Democratic nominee, and you find yourself in the position of Al Gore in 2000 or John Kerry in 2004 at the end of a very close election and there is all sorts of voting irregularities and there are suspicions of whether or not things are fair, what would you do?" asked the man. "Would you fight? If the newspapers are calling for you to concede the race, would you? Would you do what Al Gore did or would you have acted more like Kerry?"

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"Will I fight?" Edwards asked back. "Yes. Absolutely -- with everything I've got. Not for me, but for all the people in America who need us to stand up -- for all those people who voted who deserve to have their vote counted."

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When Edwards finished, he passed the microphone to Elizabeth.

"The votes don't belong to Al Gore or John Kerry or John Edwards," she said. "They belong to you and it can't be our decision not to count your vote. It belongs to you and the promise was made to you that your votes would be counted. That's the first thing -- it should never have been the candidate's decision if the votes were counted.

"The second thing is this is the reason we need to nominate John. The truth of the matter is that you hear Democrats all the time say that we should win all the same states. After 2000, they said, 'and Florida.' And now they say, 'We need to win all the states and Ohio.' Why in the world would we take such a chance when we have a candidate who, in the battleground states, is by far the most electable candidate?"

Elizabeth went on to say that, when husband is the likely nominee and placed against the likely Republican nominee, he wins nearly every state. In the same situation, she said, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton wins less than half and Sen. Barack Obama wins less than a third.

http://blog.johnedwards.com/story/2007/10/8/125954/373

Sorry, Moderators. I quoted more than three paragraphs, but I don't think John Edwards will mind. This is just such a clear statement of Edwards' intention to fight for counting every vote.