[Vision2020] Third-Party Candidates Seek Second Ohio Recount

[Janice Willard]

My understanding is that Dino Rossi is not asking for another recount.  He
is considering asking for another election.

JW
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Carscallen" <predator75 at moscow.com>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 8:55 AM
Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Third-Party Candidates Seek Second Ohio Recount


> So, Mr. Hansen, since you support this recount in Ohio, I can logically
> assume you support Dino Rossi wanting another recount in the Washington
> governor race?
>
> Just checkin'
>
> DC
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com
> [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] On Behalf Of Tom Hansen
> Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 8:51 AM
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] Third-Party Candidates Seek Second Ohio Recount
>
> >From today's (December 31, 2004) Spokesman review.
>
> Both the Green Party and Libertarian Party are seeking a recount in
> Ohio.
>
> Note to Dale "Doug's Boy" Courtney: Being a Libertarian, as you claim,
> I suggest that you stand behind your party and openly support their
> demand for this recount, ok?
>
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>
> Third-party candidates seek second Ohio recount
>
> Green Party, Libertarian say they want all votes counted
> Jay Cohen
> Associated Press
> December 31, 2004
>
>
> 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 properly 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.
>
> Counties finished the recount Tuesday. Bush won the state by 118,457
> votes over Kerry, according to unofficial results provided to the
> Associated Press by the 88 counties.
>
> "We've documented in this filing how this recount was not conducted in
> accordance with uniform standards throughout Ohio" as required by the
> U.S. Constitution, said John Bonifaz, a lawyer from the National Voting
> Right Institute representing the candidates.
>
> Ohio law requires an elections board to manually recount a randomly
> selected 3 percent of ballots. If the totals match certified results for
> those precincts, all the county's votes are then machine-counted. If the
> hand count is off, a county must manually recount all its ballots.
>
> The filing, part of an ongoing lawsuit originally brought by a county
> board of elections to stop the recount, alleges counties did not
> randomly select precincts for the manual recount and some workers
> altered votes to prevent a full hand count.
>
> Bonifaz said the filing is based on the experiences of Green Party
> representatives who observed the recount.
>
> 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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