NYT (AP) 12/31 "Candidates Want a Second Recount"

[EMunster]

Respectful...


By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: December 31, 2004

Filed at 12:08 a.m. ET

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Two third-party presidential candidates asked a federal court Thursday to force a second recount of the Ohio vote, alleging county election boards altered votes and didn't follow proper procedures in the recount that ended this week.

Lawyers for Green Party candidate David Cobb and the Libertarian Party's Michael Badnarik made their request in federal court in Columbus.

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`We've documented in this filing how this recount was not conducted in accordance with uniform standards throughout Ohio'' as required by the U.S. Constitution, said John Bonifaz, a lawyer from the National Voting Right Institute representing the candidates.

Ohio law requires an elections board to manually recount a randomly selected 3 percent of ballots. If the totals match certified results for those precincts, all the county's votes are then machine-counted. If the hand count is off, a county must manually recount all its ballots.

The filing, part of an ongoing lawsuit originally brought by a county board of elections to stop the recount, alleges counties did not randomly select precincts for the manual recount and some workers altered votes to prevent a full hand count.


http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Ohio-Vote.html

[Chili]

1. *applause*

This recount was irrelevant, and I'm so glad they're forcing the issue.

[thanatonautos]

2. Excellent. n/t

[NVMojo]

3. WOW!!! This is a good thing!!!

[bleever]

4. Nice. "We asked/paid for a real recount. May we have it please?"

It's what the law stipulates as proof of fairness.

Pretty simple.

:thumbsup:

[jkd]

5. Way to go! Cobb and Barnarik

If 3% of the precincts in each county were truly selected randomly, it's likely that any fraud that took place would be detected. These two candidates are great. They are putting the pressure where it should be. They deserve our support.

[pauldp]

6. A kick for Cobb & Badnarik

[seito]

7. Do it right the first time...

Didn't I learn that in kindergarten?

What Are They Hiding?

[Wilms]

8. Fraudulent Recount of a Fraudulent Election

Just keep rackin' up the felonies you fucking punks.

We're all looking forward to the forthcoming mug-shots.