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Delaware County court blocks recount
Wednesday, November 24, 2004
Mary Beth Lane
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
A Delaware County judge yesterday granted a temporary restraining order sought by the county’s Board of Elections to block Green and Libertarian presidential candidates from forcing a recount of the Nov. 2 election results.
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In the Delaware County case, the elections board wants to block a recount both before and after certification.
"To ask taxpayers to fund someone’s political hobbyhorse when there’s no possible chance of a different outcome seems to be an utter waste," Yost said.
"There’s better uses for that money in Delaware County and, I suspect, in other places around the state."
Yost couldn’t immediately estimate the cost of a recount in the county, but said it would be "substantial."
This is the latest ingredient in a thickening legal soup.
Delaware County is apparently the first county to seek a court order blocking a recount, said Carlo LoParo, spokesman for Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell.
Other counties, however, are thinking about it, he said.
Keith Cunningham, director of the Allen County Board of Elections and incoming president of the Ohio Association of Elections Officials, said he might mobilize other counties to resist a recount, the Associated Press reported.
(more at Dispatch)
mlane@dispatch.com
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