Greens and Libertarians preparing to demand Ohio Recount

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Whats your view?

This is important. Knowing the exact count will restore faith in our election system
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This is futile. The gap is so big in Ohio that no recount is gonna make a difference.
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Ohio was rigged, so the recount will be equally rigged.
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This recount attempt is a bad joke, just like this last poll option.
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Greens and Libertarians preparing to demand Ohio Recount

Post by Avder »

http://www.gp.org/press/pr_11_11_04.html

Yep. Recount time. Under Ohio Election law, any losing candidate can demand a recount. The recount will supposedly include all ballots, where the first count, done last week, supposedly only includes ballots that can be read by machine. Theyre also requesting that the Ohio secretary of state recuse himself from the process, as he ran part of Bush's Ohio Campaign.

Thoughts? Opinions? Snide remarks? Theres a bag of old, moldy tomatos over there *points* is anyone wants to use them.

I'll comment later with my own thoughts. I just wanna get the ball rolling atm.
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Post by Stryker »

/me hides bag of tomatoes

Seriously, Bush won by a very, very significant majority in Ohio. Making feeble attempts to change that won't do anything. If you want to change the election results, rig 'em. Don't count em 10 billion times, hoping that you misinterpreted a few.

Now I know every vote is of extreme importance here, but if the election wasn't rigged (and I know the Democrat lawyers would be more than happy to claim that it was so) there was no other possible outcome than a Bush win. He won by thousands of votes. That many people don't accidentally punch the wrong hole.
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Post by Lothar »

the Libertarian / Green parties are going to lose credibility over this. There simply isn't any point in demanding a recount if there's no good reason to suspect it would change the outcome.
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Post by Bet51987 »

I don't believe in a recount, but I believe in all votes being counted. I don't vote yet, but I would want mine counted as an american.

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Post by Gooberman »

Florida really bothered me in 2000. Not only was "who won" really completely up in the air, the tie breaker just should have been who won the popular vote. No one can say they know who had the most votes in florida. Bush "won" by 500, the margin of error was 8 freakin thousand! So if we can't determine who won, give it to the guy who got the most popular votes!

On that note, I am much more content with this last election. Bush was elected president by the majority. If Ohio was magically overturned, I wouldn't support it.
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