Reply #10: kerry teams asks Fed court to take over (bypassing the state) WP [View All]

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kerry lawyers must think there is an advantage to going to Fed. court>


.....Cobb's lawyers filed papers yesterday asking a federal court to take over the case, which is scheduled for state court.

"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23344-2004Nov30.html?sub=AR"

Kerry Team Seeks to Join Fight to Get Ohio County to Recount


Wednesday, December 1, 2004; Page A08


Sen. John F. Kerry's presidential campaign asked an Ohio judge yesterday to allow it to join a legal fight there over whether election officials in one county may sit out the state's impending recount....

......Lawyers for the Kerry campaign asked to join Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb, Libertarian candidate Michael Badnarik and the National Voting Rights Institute in the fight to force the county to participate in the recount. "If there's going to be a recount in Ohio, we don't want it to exclude Delaware County or any other county that might decide to follow Delaware County's lead," Kerry lawyer Dan Hoffheimer said. "It should be a full, fair and accurate recount."....


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