Candidate loses by 1M, but seeks recount

[oberliner]

LaPORTE, Ind. - A Libertarian candidate who lost to U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar by more than 1 million votes in the Nov. 7 election has asked for a recount in 10 precincts.

Steve Osborn, who lives in LaPorte County's Scipio Township, filed a petition Tuesday with the Indiana Recount Commission seeking the recounts in precincts in Howard, LaPorte, Porter and St. Joseph counties.

Osborn, who ran for Congress twice before, received 168,773 votes — about 13 percent of the vote — compared with 1,171,256 for Lugar, who won his sixth term in the Senate. Lugar is so popular that Indiana Democrats did not field a candidate this year to challenge him.

Osborn had little to say Tuesday about why he's seeking the recount in the 10 precincts.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061123/ap_on_el_se/senate_recount

[KingFlorez]

1. What a loon

[IndyOp]

2. No, not a loon! This is what Cobb and Badnarik did in Ohio in 2004 -

They used their standing to force a recount that revealed how dirty Ohio was. Indiana elections are so incompetently run that if fraud is NOT occurring I'll eat my hat. I live here. Votes for independent candidates I KNOW were cast do not appear on the Secretary of State's website. Touch screen voting machines were connected to optical scan readers during the election in Indianapolis - which is bogus - and 12% of Indianapolis votes were missing for several days after the election. In my county the Republican County Clerk refused to mail ballots to citizens living abroad until after it was too late for them to complete them and send them back in time. We NEED recounts to find the problems and only candidates have legal standing to call for a recount.

Osborn -> :patriot:

:kick: :kick: :kick: :kick:

[Vidar]

4. Thanks for bringing that up The Greens & Libertarians still have

my gratituded for that move.

[IndyOp]

5. And, did you know that the new Ohio Attorney General (D) promised

to prosecute cases of election fraud whenever, wherever the local prosecutors had failed to do so?

And, did you know that the 2004 ballots were saved from destruction just a few months back?

And, did you know that Richard Hayes Phillips, Bob Fitrakis, and Harvey Wasserman are still hot on the case of the theft of 2004?

All of the work that the Greens and Libertarians did may become incredibly valuable in court in just a few months...

:hi:

[salin]

6. wouldn't that be a beautiful thing...

Blackwell not only lost his bid to become governor - but may eventually, outside of Ohio and outside of the world of those paying attention to electionn fraud, become (or his name) synonymous with egregious election fraud - only to be rivaled by that other now GOP has-been, Katherine Harris.

Btw - Happy Thanksgiving! :hi:

[IndyOp]

7. It would be a beautiful thing, indeed!

And Happy Thanksgiving to you and your Mom and all, too!

:D

[Vidar]

8. Read about the ballots being saved, but the rest is very welcome

news. Thank you.

[KingFlorez]

9. I didn't look at it that way before

You have a good point

[stillcool]

3. Good for him !!

Any recount is a beautiful thing!!