[North-NV-Greens] Fwd: [usgp-dx] The Ohio recount: a challenge to Bush's victory? (Washington Dispatch)

[Paul Etxeberri]

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>Statewide Recount for Ohio
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>The Washington Dispatch
>November 17, 2004 10:15 AM
>http://www.washingtondispatch.com/spectrum/archives/000729.html
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>While George W. Bush unofficially holds a lead in
>Ohio with 136,000 votes, third-party candidates
>have raised enough money to conduct a hand
>recount of the state. The recount may change the
>results of the presidential election but would
>take place after state certification therefore
>being moot.
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>Both David Cobb of the Green Party and Michael
>Badnarik of the Libertarian Party are requesting
>a recount in Ohio. Their stated intent is not to
>overturn the election results but to ensure the
>integrity of the voting process.
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>Regardless of the intent of Badnarik and Cobb,
>Bush's 2.5% lead could be significantly cut down
>or even eliminated as provisional ballots are
>counted and newly discovered errors in electronic
>tallies are corrected. In Gahanna County alone,
>4,000 votes were given to George Bush in error.
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>Over 155,000 provision ballots remain to be
>counted and due to post-election rule changes by
>Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, a
>republican, many of those ballots are expected to
>be thrown out.
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>Amazingly, on the chance that Sen. John Kerry is
>shown to have the majority of votes in Ohio after
>a recount is conducted, the democratic voting
>process will not matter as Bush will already have
>flawed state certifications and most likely will
>be a few weeks into his second term. Due to state
>certification of the election results taking
>place before the recount, George W. Bush would be
>sworn in on January 20th unless a legal fight is
>pursued by the Democrats or public interest
>groups.
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Paul Etxeberri

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