Reply #8: "Democrats take up fight over ballots" [View All]

[vireo]

I'm not sure anything about this has been posted (from The Plain Dealer):

Cincinnati - Seeming to brush aside John Kerry's concession speech, the Ohio Democratic Party has launched a federal court fight over nearly 155,000 provisional ballots by contending a proper accounting of those votes might decide who really won.

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The lawsuit asked U.S. District Judge Michael H. Watson to order Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell to impose uniform standards for counting provisional votes on all 88 counties. Democrats want the judge to take action quickly - before the results of the election are certified.

Watson, who was appointed by Bush, has not set a hearing.

http://www.cleveland.com/search/index.ssf?/base/isvot/1100782534290590.xml?isvot

Do we really want to ask for Blackwell's "assistance" or is this about wishing to comply with Bush v. Gore (which supposedly is not to be regarded as precedent)?

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