Ohio Recount set in motion

Yeah. How long will this recount take? Anyone?

For those who missed it...

It is never over on the boards.

I still say Dewey won.


[Edited on Nov 16, 2004 by Point_Blank]

Aww crap...
Two more months of whiney, bickering crap...

there are no more legitimate news agencies.

when can we start shootin?

Well the fact that the number of votes 'overcounted' was random, and not some set pattern, makes me think it was a computer-error.

But I can see how it could look bad.

So far all I've seen is different groups calling for recounts and trying to raise funds, but so far, no actual counting has started. At least, according to what I've found...

Process:

(1) Finish counting.

(2) Certify the results. This is expected about 1 Dec.

(3) Some Presidential Candidate files for a recount and has the money to pay for it.

(4) Recount.

Ohio is still on (1). They have not finished the process of counting the provisional ballots.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/09/business/yourmoney/09vote.html

Of course, some of us find it troubling that the Ohio the person in charge of overseeing the elections (and setting the rules, and changing them even after the voting was finished) is also co-chair of Bush-Cheney '04 in Ohio.

What's the source of this information?

Some people sit in the theatre after the movie's over to watch the credits. But not many people sit in the theatre after the lights come up and start yelling at the screen about how the movie wasn't supposed to end that way, or demanding the projectionist show the rest of the movie.

[Edited on Nov 20, 2004 by stockula]

So you are saying that the election is nothing but a trivial piece of entertainment? A distraction for the masses? Where if people think they have some input they are delusional?

Hmm you might have a point.

Best post of the thread.

Hey Stock,,,,

I know this is a little off topic..BUT..

could you please change your profile pic.. you are about the most un-dude person I can imagine and your dragging the feel good vibe of the little Lebowski thru the mud.

I just can't see that the recount is going to much matter. This is the most overtly fascist administration that we've had since Nixon's, it has no respect for the rule of law, and it will likely do anything to remain in power.


And before Stockula starts crying about my being a whiny liberal using hate speech to equate Bush with Hitler, let me say that I am neither a liberal nor a conservative, that Bush is not Hitler (he's not even Franco), and that by "fascist", I merely mean:

"A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism."

Bush may be a little loose on the socioeconomic controls (though, as an obvious oligopolist, he probably qualifies); and he's probably more crony capitalist and theocrat than racist; but he certainly strikes me as fascist.


And, Stockula, before you start howling even more, let me say, "Hey, I recognize that plenty of people love fascism. Not everything people with fascist leanings do is bad. I expect that, if one were to call it something else, most Americans would be happy with a fascist government. See, for example:

Stealth Democracy: Americans’ Beliefs about How Government Should Work. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Co-authors: John Hibbing and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse.

What is it about Government that Americans Dislike. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Co-editors: John Hibbing and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse.

Congress as Public Enemy: Public Attitudes toward Political Institutions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Co-authors: John Hibbing and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse.


{damned typing errors!!!}


[Edited on Nov 21, 2004 by fatdavid8]

this thread isn't going to make Karl Rove happy.

This makes me wonder what happened to the millions of dollars that the democrats collected in the last week of the election - the appeal was to give to a fund that would go toward any legal challenges of the actual balloting, or vote counts. Seems as though the sleazy fucks have folded it up and stashed it away for future lameness.

I want my $25 back.

http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/procedures_recount01.html
and
http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/procedures_recount_os.html

Video the Vote, Ohio

http://www.metroblogging.com/videothevote/