Citizens of Ohio. Please Petition for a Recount

I'm still sick to my stomach about what happened on tuesday and wednesday. As we all are.

I can understand why Kerry chose to concede. And if one thinks about the GOP gains in Congress, one can even argue that it made sense on those grounds. A sense of giving Bush his mess. Though i doubt that was the case. You don't give up the number 1 seat of power because you have an opposition Congress.

But I am also so angry that K/E conceded. I truly thought they were going to fight. And why not? What was there to lose? What was at risk? A more rancorous country?  I don't think that should be the concern, or that it was.

I believe this election, for the second time, was stolen by this junta.

In Ohio, by law, five citizens per county, only five, have the right to call for a recount. Randy Rhodes, on a screed all afternoon on Wednesday, kept arguing that we, the citizens, are now the only check and balance left. To play that out, citizens should fight this election result. Our leaders won't (and as I said, I can understand why), so why can't we?

Why shouldn't we? Its our election, its our democracy.

Am I ranting? Maybe. but so be it.

Are there five brave Americans to do this in Ohio?

•  Read Greg Palast

  Kerry Won
  Greg Palast
  November 04, 2004

  Bush won Ohio by 136,483 votes. Typically in the United States, about 3 percent of votes cast are voided--known as "spoilage" in election jargon--because the ballots cast are inconclusive. Palast's investigation suggests that if Ohio's discarded ballots were counted, Kerry would have won the state. Today,  the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports  there are a total of 247,672 votes not counted in Ohio, if you add the 92,672 discarded votes plus the 155,000 provisional ballots.

  Read more and weep....

  http://www.tompaine.com/articles/kerry_won.php
  

  by landrew on Thu Nov 04, 2004 at 10:59:32 AM PDT

  •  Precisely

    So, why are the Buckeyes not calling for a recount? its their legal right.

    by BrooklynBoy on Thu Nov 04, 2004 at 11:01:53 AM PDT

•  Keep ranting!!! Do whatever it takes...

  ...see my Diary -- "Markos -- Call Kerry"

  Fight. Fight. Fight. To have every vote recorded, accurately.

  by understandinglife on Thu Nov 04, 2004 at 11:02:29 AM PDT

•  Someone thinks he earned political capital

  From the  Washington Post: President tells the press he earned political "capital" in the election and now intends to spend it.  

  Speak now Ohio or we will forever have to hold our peace.

  Our... constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. Thurgood Marshall

  by bronte17 on Thu Nov 04, 2004 at 11:29:44 AM PDT