Lost in the news of the tsunami was that the Ohio recount was finished. Kerry gained a grand total of 285 votes! You'd think this would be the end of it, but Jesse Jackson is continuing to make a fool out of himself.
Election officials finished the presidential recount in Ohio on Tuesday, with the final tally shaving about 300 votes off President Bush's six-figure margin of victory in the state that gave him a second term.
The recount shows Bush winning Ohio by 118,457 votes over John Kerry, according to unofficial results provided to The Associated Press by the 88 counties. Lucas County, home to Toledo, was the last to finish counting.
The state had earlier declared Bush the winner by 118,775 votes and plans to adjust its totals to reflect the recount later this week.
The Kerry campaign supported the recount, but said it did not expect the tally to change the election winner. Supporters of the recount, requested by two minor party candidates, said they wanted to make sure every valid vote was counted.
Kerry gained 734 more votes in the recount, and Bush picked up 449, mostly from disqualified ballots that were counted in the second tally because hanging chads had come loose when ballots were handled again or rerun through counting machines.
That put Kerry 285 votes closer to Bush. The president's victory margin declined by about three dozen more votes when some counties adjusted their certified vote totals.
The Green and Libertarian party presidential candidates asked for the recount and raised the $113,600 required under state law for the process.
Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell has estimated that the recount will end up costing taxpayers $1.5 million.
Witnesses who watched workers count ballots by hand and machine said the effort provided assurance that boards were accurately counting ballots.
But the completion of the recount will not bring an end to questions surrounding the vote in Ohio.
A group of voters citing fraud have challenged the election results with the Ohio Supreme Court. The voters, supported by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, have cited irregularities including long lines, a shortage of voting machines in minority precincts and problems with computer equipment.
Attorney General Jim Petro has called the challenge frivolous and argued that the state Supreme Court does not have jurisdiction over a federal election.
Cliff Arnebeck, an attorney representing the voters in the challenge, wasn't taking much stock in the recount effort. He questioned why there was no independent investigation into the accuracy of counting machines to determine whether the machines had been tampered with.
"You're allowing the original error to be repeated a second time, so it's not a meaningful recount," he said.
Freedom of speech makes it much easier to spot the idiots.
Jackson doesn't need elections to make him look like a nut.
Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all. - Douglas Adams
Of course that recount didn't include the hundreds of thousands of ballots that were "misplaced" in dumpsters nor those turned away from the polls... also in the news there is a group of people suing Ohio for the results... sure it's a farce
Marb
PS - Brotha when are you going to be online again? I figured you would have caught up by now so we could group
Marbus wrote:PS - Brotha when are you going to be online again? I figured you would have caught up by now so we could group
Hey Marb! My computer has been acting up even worse than before. I'm working on fixing it now, but I'm really not able to play WoW for more than a few minutes, plus with the holidays I've been pretty busy. Hopefully It will be fixed soon though!
Freedom of speech makes it much easier to spot the idiots.
Alright man I understand, may have to reload myself as I keep crashing since the last patch due to "Error 132". I knew you wouldn't be on much close to Christmas, just missed ya since then and wanted to check to make sure everything was cool. Hope ya get everything worked out.
Yay for frivolous lawsuits! Those 500 votes cost the residents of Ohio enough money to deny the adding of roughly 25 firefighters for a year.....or 25 police officers for a year....or enough money to feed about 12,500 people for a year. Good job whining democrats!
Kilmoll the Sexy wrote:Yay for frivolous lawsuits! Those 500 votes cost the residents of Ohio enough money to deny the adding of roughly 25 firefighters for a year.....or 25 police officers for a year....or enough money to feed about 12,500 people for a year. Good job whining democrats!
You don't... really want to get into a comparison of frivolous money-wasting that could have gone to protect the american people. ...Do you?
Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all. - Douglas Adams
Kilmoll the Sexy wrote: Good job whining democrats!
Good job poor reading skills!
Let me help you ....
The Green and Libertarian party presidential candidates asked for the recount
That means the Democrats did not request the recount.
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Kilmoll the Sexy wrote: Good job whining democrats!
Good job poor reading skills!
Let me help you ....
The Green and Libertarian party presidential candidates asked for the recount
That means the Democrats did not request the recount.
Everybody knows The Green/Libertarian parties are just pawns...err..prawns of the Democratic party. Either way, I want to dip them in hot butter and gobble em up!
I certainly hope you are just trying to be funny and don't actually believe that...hard to tell with you neocons...
....but either way that's sweet for you to defend your fellow neocon's ignorance...
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You are right lali...I was entirely wrong and admit it. Kerry actually only gained 300 votes. Pretty good deal at only $50,000 per vote gained. They could have hired me and I would have added a few thousand votes for that cash and made him feel better about his chances for next time.
or, better yet, we can look at the countless decisions made by reps that dwarf that 50k figure.
your argument of fiscal responsibility of specific decisions made holds no water at all given who you chose to endorse. actually, it's downright stupid
...and you dont think there was any Democratic influence to recount Ohio?
Tell me whos wearing the blinders.
If you watched the debate on c-span (which I did flipping from the house to the senate). Every democrat was saying that we had problems with our voting system and had absolutely no intention of over turning the vote, but that 1 person being turned away to vote is one to many.
Since a bipartison bill to reform our voting (proposed in June) somehow got lost in the shuffle (thanks tom delay and bill frist), they were using this time to discuss it.