By the way, however, I think people are dramatically overestimating the significance of Kerry's "concession".  "Conceding" the election has no legal significance.  If recounts show he won, then he won... he can "un-concede" without much difficulty.  He made a smart and classy speech, and the door is still open to do whatever recounts and investigations are necessary to ensure the vote counts are, indeed, accurate.

And quite frankly, it's best if the Democrats in Ohio and Florida do that on their own, without being pushed by Kerry (HINT HINT).  Kerry can take a step back, concede, and assume the election is over.  If it proves, two weeks from now, that Ohio has screwed up and that the certified total really does change the outcome -- which, everyone should realize, is very, very unlikely given these overall numbers -- then Kerry wins, whether he has "graciously conceded" or not.

Personally, I do think there was quite a bit of fraud, but I don't think it was enough to change the outcome.  Florida is more odd, and I'd like to see recounts there perhaps even more than in Ohio.  Not because I think it would change the outcome, but because we need to have evidence that the system is working.

There is no possible reason not to recount the votes.  After 2000, it would be a good exercise, either way, in determining whether the problems have been "fixed".

But in-state Dems need to get off their asses and do it, and not wait for Kerry/Gore/Dean whoever to swoop down and rescue them.  For nationwide political reasons, they can't do that right now.

There are obvious errors in Bush's favor in the vote counts. There are 3600-5000 votes for Bush that are obviously errors (4285 votes for Bush in a precinct where 635 votes were cast, for starters). My diary on this is here.

David Cobb was a write in - not on the ballot in Ohio, so I;m not sure how much help he would be in this particular instance, although I'm sure he'd be happy to halp as much as possible.

You are correct - only a candidate can do initiate a recount and get the undervoted ballots checked for hanging chad.

But - my read of Ohio law is that the 20 Presidential Electors are in fact themselves the candidates up for election, and therefore THEY personally and individually have legal standing to initiate a recount (needing only a legal and PR team and lots of $$$).

Start networking and maybe there's one out there who is as frustrated as we are.

It's probably not appropriate to put their names here; it's really not appropriate for anyone who has real-life contact with any of them to describe that sort of negotiation in this sort of forum.  

But as many people as possible should be thinking of their networks and should be passing this idea around wherever they can, to see if someone can persuade one of these people to do the significant that they may ever do for their country.

List of Ohio's electors is here:
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/11/01/loc_elex1melect.html

the site you want is here

Jerry is running for governor in 06 and needs support.