Cobb Update: Six counties start recounting on Monday, Dec 13

[Dolphyn]

Here's today's email update from the Cobb campaign. There is also a daily update at the votecobb.org home page.

http://lists.votecobb.org/pipermail/recount-news/2004-December/000009.html

Hello everyone!

Yesterday was a very busy day; most of the Boards of Elections were finally
answering the questions of our Regional and County Coordinators.

Eighty-eight counties and it feels like 50 different start times. For
example, we have at least six counties starting on Monday the 13th - at 7am, 9am,
9:30 am, 2 @ 10am, 1pm, 3pm....not like they could make it easy, right?

We have dozens of trainings taking place this weekend, and we expect
supporters from Oregon, California, Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New
York, Connecticut, Kentucky, West Virginia to start

Monday, December 13th also brings lots of activity to Columbus, Ohio.
Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones along with Judiciary Committee Ranking Member
John Conyers, Reps. Maxine Waters and Ted Strickland, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson
will hold a forum addressing Voting Irregularities in Ohio to take place at
Columbus City Hall, Columbus City Council Chambers, 90 West Broad Street,
Columbus.

Meanwhile, outside the State Capitol, protesters will be gathering from 11am
- 1pm to demonstrate their outrage that Ohio's electors will cast their votes
on the day the recount finally begins. David Cobb will address the crowd
around 12:15.

Tuesday, December 14th is the big day for DRE (Direct Recording Electronic)
voting machines with Franklin County (515, 472 votes) and Mahoning County (131,
938 votes) as well as Pickaway and Ross Counties starting recounts of
....what exactly?

DREs have no voter-verified paper trail.

For more information on DRE voting machines, please visit
http://www.verifiedvoting.org/article.php?id=5018


Please visit our website daily at http://www.votecobb.org for new and updated
information.

Thank you for your support,

Lynne Serpe
Campaign Manager
Cobb/LaMarche Ohio Recount
www.votecobb.org

[shraby]

1. I just emailed to remind

them of different precincts - different order of candidates on the ballots in different precincts. In multi-precinct buildings, a ballot could easily have been run through the wrong precinct counter.

A few more emails about it wouldn't hurt.

[bj2110]

2. Any news on which precincts they start with? State law requires only 3%...

to be counted first, then if (yes, if) the tallies are different than the official count by some amount (not sure who decides that amount), then they hand recounr the whole thing. If not, they say the official count is OK. So, it all depends on which precincts are counted. Who picks the precincts? They need to make sure they look into the most suspect precincts first...

[AndrewClarke]

3. They can't look at the most suspect precincts first

The precincts have to be chosen randomly.

The hand count and the machine count have to be identical, or they have to count all the precincts by hand.

This is all done on a county-by-county basis.