[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [Prairiegreens] Release: COBB DEMANDS OHIO RECOUNT

[Ricky Baldwin]

Great!  SOMEBODY needs to, after that performance from
Mr. "I'll-Fight-For-Every-Vote"...

Ricky

--- Ken Urban <kurban at parkland.edu> wrote:

> Greens & Libertarians may actually get a recount in
> Ohio.  
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> ATTACHMENT part 2 message/rfc822 
> From: huckelberry at softhome.net
> To: BNCPJ at yahoogroups.com,
> mcleancountygreens at yahoogroups.com,
> 	prairiegreens at lists.groogroo.com
> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 11:05:46 -0700
> Subject: [Prairiegreens] Release: COBB DEMANDS OHIO
> RECOUNT
> 
> For immediate release:  November 11, 2004 
> 
> Contact:
> Blair Bobier, Media Director at 541.929.5755 or
> 414.364.1596
> Stephen Gordon, Badnarik campaign at 256.227.8360
> 
> GREEN & LIBERTARIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES TO
> DEMAND OHIO RECOUNT 
> 
> David Cobb and Michael Badnarik, the 2004
> presidential candidates for
> the Green and Libertarian parties, today announced
> their intentions to
> file a formal demand for a recount of the
> presidential ballots cast in
> Ohio.
>  	
> “Due to widespread reports of irregularities in the
> Ohio voting
> process, we are compelled to demand a recount of the
> Ohio presidential
> vote.  Voting is the heart of the democratic process
> in which we as a
> nation put our faith.  When people stand in line for
> hours to exercise
> their right to vote, they need to know that all
> votes will be counted
> fairly and accurately.  We must protect the rights
> of the people of
> Ohio, as well as all Americans, and stand up for the
> right to vote and
> the right for people’s votes to be counted.  The
> integrity of the
> democratic process is at stake,” the two candidates
> said in a joint
> statement.
> 	
> The candidates also demanded that Ohio Secretary of
> State Kenneth
> Blackwell, a Republican who chaired the Ohio Bush
> campaign, recuse
> himself from the recount process.
> 	
> The Ohio presidential election was marred by
> numerous press and
> independent reports of voter intimidation,
> mis-marked and discarded
> ballots, problems with electronic voting machines
> and the targeted
> disenfranchisement of African American voters.  A
> number of citizens’
> groups and voting rights organizations are holding
> hearings this
> Saturday in Columbus, Ohio to investigate voting
> irregularities and
> voter suppression in the Ohio 2004 general election.
>  The hearings
> will be held from 1-4 p.m. at the New Faith Baptist
> Church, 955 Oak
> Street.  Voters, poll workers, journalists and
> voting experts are
> invited to testify.  A second hearing will be held
> on Monday at a
> location TBA, from 6-9 p.m.
> 	
> The Cobb and Badnarik campaigns are in the process
> of raising the
> required fee, estimated at $110,000, for filing for
> a complete
> recount.  The campaigns are accepting contributions
> through their
> websites.  The Cobb-LaMarche website is
> http://www.votecobb.org.  The
> Badnarik-Campagna contribution page is
> https://badnarik.org.
> 	
> The Cobb and Badnarik campaigns have displayed a
> level of cooperation
> and civility rarely found in electoral politics. 
> The campaigns
> jointly participated in and/or sponsored a series of
> independent
> debates.  Cobb and Badnarik were also simultaneously
> arrested in St.
> Louis protesting their exclusion from the
> restricted, two-party
> corporate-sponsored debates.
> 	
> To see an investigative report by Greg Palast,
> author of The Best
> Democracy Money Can Buy, which asserts that the Ohio
> vote was
> improperly decided, see
> http://www.tompaine.com/articles/kerry_won.php.
> 	
> For an article detailing a dozen ways in which the
> Ohio vote was
> potentially manipulated, see
>
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/810.
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