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Greens and Libertarians Team Up to Demand Recount

Posted by timothy on from the pay-it-forward dept.

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."

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  1. Re:my question by Ster · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If the DNC was asking for a re-count, everyone would immediately think "sour grapes" and make comparisons to Florida, etc. The fact that it's people who have no earthly chance of winning, and they're *still* asking for a recount, makes it look more like they're concerned about the process of elections than the outcome of this particular election. Which just happens to be the case here. :-)

    That said, I wouldn't be terribly surprised if a fair number of people who voted for Kerry donated to Badnarik and/or Cobb for this one issue.

    -Ster