Ohio Justice Throws Out Election Challenge

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wicket (1000+ posts) Thu Dec-16-04 01:54 PM
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Ohio Justice Throws Out Election Challenge

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041216/ap_on_el_pr/ohio_vote

The Ohio Supreme Court's chief justice on Thursday threw out a challenge to the state's presidential election results. But the 40 voters who brought the case will likely be able to refile the challenge.

Chief Justice Thomas Moyer ruled that the request improperly challenged two separate election results. Ohio law only allows one race to be challenged in a single complaint, he said.

The challenge was backed by the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Cliff Arnebeck, a Columbus attorney for the Massachusetts-based Alliance for Democracy, who accused Bush's campaign of "high-tech vote stealing."

Claiming fraud, the voters cited reports of voting-machine errors, double-counting of some ballots and a shortage of voting machines in predominantly minority precincts as reasons to throw out the election results.


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