Now almost all the candidates except Kerry and Bush are demanding
recounts; and none of them have much personal at stake.
Yesterday (Thursday) Green Party candidate David Cobb
and Libertarian Michael Bednarik filed a demand for an Ohio recount. Someone apparently discovered an obscure law on
the Ohio books, that provides the right to demand a recount, given certain easily met conditions (like 5 complaints
or something). They expect to raise the required $110,000 to pay for it within the next 48 hours. So it won't be
official for a couple days.
They are also calling on Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, the official who
administered voting in Ohio, to disqualify himself from the process.
Blackwell was also Ohio Chair of the
Bush/Cheney reelection campaign. (Could someone explain to me why this is allowed in America?)
Readers of
earlier posts in this thread may recall that Blackwell had spearheaded two controversial efforts that effectively
made it more difficult to vote in Ohio.
http://blog.democrats.com/ohio-recount
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