Green/Libertarian Pres Candidates File for Ohio Recount (fwd)

[Evan Daniel Ravitz <evan@xxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 07:46:00 -0600
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Subject: Green/Libertarian Pres Candidates File for Ohio Recount

Green & Libertarian Presidential Candidates to Demand Ohio Recount


11/11 - 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 www.votecobb.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.