Kerry Lawyer Seeks Ohio Ballot Inspection

[rodeodance]

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/121404W.shtml

Kerry Lawyer Seeks Ohio Ballot Inspection

The Associated Press

Monday 13 December 2004

Democrat John Kerry is asking county elections officials to allow his witnesses to inspect the 92,000 ballots cast in Ohio in which no vote for president was recorded, a Kerry lawyer said Sunday night.

The request is one of 11 the Kerry campaign made in a letter sent over the weekend to Ohio's 88 county boards of election, which will begin recounting presidential ballots this week.

"We're trying to increase the transparency of the election process," said Donald McTigue, the lawyer handling the recount for the Kerry campaign. But he added that several requests _ such as using independent experts to check election equipment, "are trying to push the edge of envelope."

Two minor presidential candidates who received 0.30 percent of the votes in last month's election requested and paid for the recount, claiming that the election was full of irregularities that need to be addressed........

[idiosyncratic]

1. Glad to see they didn't use the word "dissident" like MSM does.

n/t

[Up2Late]

2. They covered this in Headlines of NPR at least twice

During "All Things Considered" Not bad considering.

Also, Had a 5 min+ story on NPR's "Tavis Smiley Show" :bounce:
today, Dec.13, 2004