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| Ohio Recount Ends, Shows Vote Closer |
| 2004-12-29 |
| 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. Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell has estimated that the recount will end up costing taxpayers $1.5 million. Boy does that p*ss me off. I wonder how many idiots would be for counting every vote if they knew that. It ended up costing us over $1k per new vote counted and over $5k per Kerry vote gain. What a worthwile expense. I am sure everyone is happy that their vote counted... jerkoffs. But wait, there's more. 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. At least someone has brains in all this... 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. Ok jerkoff, how about you get as many recounts as you want but it comes directly out of your pocket. |
| Posted by:Ol_Dirty_American |
| #2 Wow. If they pick up 300 votes every time they do a recount, then it'll only take another 394 recounts to make John Kerry president! Uh, Mr. Soros! We need another $591,000,000 to pay for the recounts. Mr. Soros? . . . you still there? . . . darn! We musta got cut off or somethin' . . . |
| Posted by: Mike 2004-12-29 5:08:19 PM |
| #1 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. Three hundred got shaved off? All right, let's see how many more can be whittled way. Count 'em again, boys!!! |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-12-29 3:09:26 PM |