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ChicanoPwr Donating Member (536 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 09:51 AM
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Another MSM Report of Ohio
Candidates Want Second Ohio Recount
By Jay Cohen/Associated Press 12/31

COLUMBUS, Ohio - 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.

The two candidates, who received less than 0.3 percent of the Ohio vote, paid $113,600 for a statewide recount after the vote was certified earlier this month by the secretary of state. They have said they don't expect to change the election results, but want to make sure that every vote is proply counted.

Ohio and its 20 electoral votes tipped the race to President Bush when Sen. John Kerry conceded the morning after the Nov. 2 election.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=703&e=7&u=/ap/20041231/ap_on_el_pr/ohio_vote
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jazzjunkysue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 09:53 AM
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1. It's up at ABC and MSNBC and CBS, too. Not CNN, yet.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 09:56 AM
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2. Tenacious effort admirable!
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mia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 10:00 AM
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3. So they likely have proof that
"counties did not randomly select precincts for the manual recount and some workers altered votes to prevent a full hand count."
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AllegroRondo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 10:09 AM
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4. If they have proof of this, its enough to send someone to jail
lets hope they can implicate Blackwell
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 10:12 AM
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5. My dear AllegroRondo Welldone has implicated himself!
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pbartch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-01-05 11:36 PM
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18. Lets hope Blackwell finds himself a nice boyfriend in Jail
That is where that evil, evil man belongs!
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Dee625 Donating Member (132 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 11:44 AM
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8. Yes
They have proof of that.
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mia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 12:13 PM
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11. Then every Senator with integrity will stand up.
I believe that Senator Barack Obama will make the right choice.

In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us, the bedrock of this nation; the belief in things not seen; the belief that there are better days ahead. I believe we can give our middle class relief and provide working families with a road to opportunity. I believe we can provide jobs to the jobless, homes to the homeless, and reclaim young people in cities across America from violence and despair. I believe that as we stand on the crossroads of history, we can make the right choices, and meet the challenges that face us. America!

Barach Obama ~ The audacity of hope!




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flpoljunkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 10:21 AM
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6. Same lies as in FL in 2000--No, some counties never recounted at all!
Carlo LoParo, a spokesman for Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, called the contentions "baseless accusations."

"The ballots were counted in Ohio, they were counted again, they were recounted. The election is over," LoParo said.

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Hell, in Florida in 2000 some counties did not even run the ballots back through the machines for the initial recount; they just reread the results on the tapes! This, by the way, was per Katherine Harris's instructions and contradicted an earlier ruling by the Department of Elections.

We must demand transparency in our elections or our democracy is lost! We cannot have central tabulator computers that can be hacked--this is where the fraud most likely took place.
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 10:31 AM
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7. LoParo quote James Baker from Florida 2000: "The ballots were counted....
Carlo LoParo, a spokesman for Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, called the contentions "baseless accusations."

"The ballots were counted in Ohio, they were counted again, they were recounted. The election is over," LoParo said.


They are really getting stale using that same old line from "Selection 2000."

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Doremus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 11:47 AM
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9. Hypocritical Bastards
"We've counted and recounted..." yadda yadda

While in Washington it's "Count all the votes."

They make me sick.
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ClassWarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 11:50 AM
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10. Rate it up at Yahoo!
NGU.


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ChicanoPwr Donating Member (536 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 12:41 PM
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12. I think we have amovement against us
I just checked, out of 503 votes, it is being buried.
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jazzjunkysue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-01-05 08:23 PM
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13. bring it on.
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PearliePoo2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-01-05 08:36 PM
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14. finally some exposure
Most people I talk to don't even know this is HAPPENING!
gave it a 5.........594 votes
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-01-05 08:44 PM
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15. Its current average rating is 2.94 with 595 vote(s).
um...seems like it is not a popular story!!!!!
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Left coast liberal Donating Member (889 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-01-05 11:12 PM
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16. Kick n/t
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many a good man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-01-05 11:29 PM
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17. ...counties did not RANDOMLY select precincts for the manual recount ...
...counties did not RANDOMLY select precincts for the manual recount
...counties did not RANDOMLY select precincts for the manual recount
...counties did not RANDOMLY select precincts for the manual recount
...counties did not RANDOMLY select precincts for the manual recount
...counties did not RANDOMLY select precincts for the manual recount
...counties did not RANDOMLY select precincts for the manual recount
...counties did not RANDOMLY select precincts for the manual recount
...counties did not RANDOMLY select precincts for the manual recount
...counties did not RANDOMLY select precincts for the manual recount
...counties did not RANDOMLY select precincts for the manual recount
...counties did not RANDOMLY select precincts for the manual recount
...counties did not RANDOMLY select precincts for the manual recount
...counties did not RANDOMLY select precincts for the manual recount
...counties did not RANDOMLY select precincts for the manual recount
...counties did not RANDOMLY select precincts for the manual recount
...counties did not RANDOMLY select precincts for the manual recount
...counties did not RANDOMLY select precincts for the manual recount
...counties did not RANDOMLY select precincts for the manual recount
...counties did not RANDOMLY select precincts for the manual recount
...counties did not RANDOMLY select precincts for the manual recount

How many weren't random? How were they picked then?
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Carolab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-01-05 11:41 PM
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19. Rated n/t
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McCamy Taylor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-01-05 11:45 PM
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20. Go Third Parties!
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