Kerry will not concede, will challenge Ohio results

[Ought Six]

Fox News's reporter covering the Kerry campaign says that Kerry will give a non-concession speech tonight, telling his supporters that they will challenge the results in Ohio and that they should "keep the faith". They are just introducing John Edwards as "the next Vice-President of the United States".

 

[Walrus Whisperer]

Coward. He had Breck boy come out and talk.

 

[TJA]

And this is a surprise?

 

[summerthyme]

Shakespeare had it right.

Summerthyme

 

[bipshoft]

Why would he not challenge Ohio

there are up to 250k provisional ballots and none of the out of state ballots have yet been counted

what would you do ?

 

[Prairie Lady]

Shakespeare had it right.

If you're thinking what I'm thinking, it would be the best he ever had. :lol

 

[Dennis Olson]

A recount is fine with me. Let's get this over with...

 

[Aleph Null]

Well Dennis, looks like it's time to rename this subforum to "Election Month 2004".

-A0-

 

[Ought Six]

It is not a recount, as the provisional ballots have never been counted. The real count will be about 140,000, not 250,000. Many of them will be thrown out as they are invalid. Out of what remains, it is statistically impossible to for Kerry to win. The process will probably take weeks, as the Repubs are going to challenge virtually every provisional vote that Kerry gets, one by one.

 

[ejagno]

Come on now, we will have a prez by Jan. 06th..........................just in time to swear them in.

 

[Synap]

Well..at least we now know what his PLAN was.

 

[rescath]

There's a real problem if Kerry demands a recount. Electronic voting machines (used in some parts of Ohio) leave no paper trail -- so there can be no valid recount. See the "it's going to get ugly" thread.

http://www.ejfi.org/Voting/Voting-20.htm

The result could be the failure of an American presidential election and its collapse into suspicions, accusations and a civic fury that will make Florida 2000 seem like a family spat in the kitchen. Robert Reich, Bill Clinton's Labor Secretary, has written, "Automated voting machines will be easily rigged, with no paper trails to document abuses." Senator John Kerry told Florida Democrats last March, "I don't think we ought to have any vote cast in America that cannot be traced and properly recounted." Pointing out in a recent speech at the NAACP convention that "a million African-Americans were disenfranchised in the last election," Kerry says his campaign is readying 2,000 lawyers to "challenge any place in America where you cannot trace the vote and count the votes" [see Greg Palast, "Vanishing Votes," May 17].

 

[Blastoff]

there's not enough "electronic votes" in Ohio to make a difference


Ohio uses punch cards almost everywhere - like 80 of 88 counties.