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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."
In everyone's mind, Bush won. And since Ohio uses electronic voting, there's no way to do a recount since there's no paper trail in the first place. Even if there was a paper trail I seriously doubt they could overcome the 100,000 vote margin needed to win. Just my two cents.
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You're on slashdot, and you're glad Bush won?
I'm not a Bush-ite, but your comment was as illogical as the arguments used by the Right to support morality laws in order to abate the impending wrath of God.
We are so partisan that our idea of political discourse is like a junior high dance--boys on the left side of the gymnasium, girls on the right.
About the economy comment, I see the Democrats have programmed you well. Unfortunately, Bush isn't on the Ways and Means committee, nor is he on the Federal Reserve board, nor is he part of any decision making process that Constitutionally *ought* to have anything to do with the control of the economy.
And Congress did declare war. It may or may not have been political suicide to go against it, but at the time there was a lot of false intelligence floating around, and it sure seemed like Saddamm wasn't really planning on letting the US in to check for WMD. I'm not saying it's right--I think the war is wrong, but I don't think we should blame the President for the economic ramifications.
I'm sick of liberals who think that the President and his staff are the only officials that we hold accountable in this country.
This zealous, blind hatred for Bush probably turned off a lot of would-be Kerry voters. And now Democrats have started coming down on Kerry for being too soft.
Democrats *hate* the Witchunter logic used by the Right Wing today (I'm thinking evangelicals). Of course, human nature being what it is, I suppose I shouldn't expect anything more out of them than the same rabid hatred and unwillingness to understand the "other side."
The two-party system has destroyed this country and made the more intelligent succumb to groupthink and a willingness to abandon truth in favor of getting a quick bash in on those with whom you disagree.
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If you'd studied Politics you'd realise that politicians are held accountable through elections. Bush was held accountable at the presidential elections and the people decided to keep him on. If you like it or not, he was held accountable and people agreed with what he had done.