Greens and Libertarians Team Up to Demand Recount

cyberformer writes "The Ohio election rules state that any losing candidate can demand a manual recount. Today, David Cobb and Michael Badnarik, the predidential candidates for the Green and Libertarian parties, announced that they are joining forces to do just that. A manual recount is important because it will include every ballot cast, whereas the first count only includes ballots that can be read by machine. It could even tip the state (and thus the election) from Bush to Kerry."

Comments

Re:What if Kerry won?

[whoda]

The electoral college doesn't meet to vote until December 13th this year.
It's not officially over until they have voted. The results of that vote aren't unsealed and counted until January 6th.

Conceding elections is just a nice way of saying, I won't personally oppose you any more.

If the outcome changes thru some other process and the electoral college votes Kerry into the Presidency, that's it, Bush wouldn't have to concede anything.

Re:Makes no difference

[mwlewis]

But, you know who the person with the second largest number of ballots cast for him is? Kerry. That means that Bush had the largest number of votes cast *against* him in any presidential election in US history.

Ummm, no, that's wrong. First, since Bush had more votes than Kerry, Kerry had more votes cast against him than were cast against Bush. But let's assume that you meant to say that Bush had the most votes cast against him and still won the election. You'd still be wrong. In 1992, there were almost 60 million votes against Bill Clinton, compared to almost 57 million against Bush in 2004.