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In reply to the discussion: Analysis Of Kentucky Election Results Indicates Fraud [View all]L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)41. Boxer joins challenge to Ohio's vote result
Boxer joins challenge to Ohio's vote result
Election is certified after ensuing debate
By Toby Eckert January 7, 2005
Election is certified after ensuing debate
By Toby Eckert January 7, 2005
WASHINGTON Two Democratic lawmakers raised a rarely used objection yesterday to delay Congress' certification of the 2004 presidential election results.
Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-Ohio, challenged the results from Ohio that clinched President Bush's re-election victory. The dramatic move did not threaten the election's outcome, and neither lawmaker said that was their aim. But it forced a two-hour debate in the House and Senate over voting irregularities in Ohio, the need for further voting reforms by Congress and whether Democrats were raising legitimate issues or merely refusing to accept the reality of Bush's win.
Republicans denounced the challenge, only the second such move since 1877.
Without Boxer's backing, Tubbs Jones' motion would have failed a lack of Senate support doomed a similar effort to challenge Florida's vote after the 2000 election and the electoral votes would have been counted in a joint session of Congress without formal debate.
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America deserves verifiable & transparent electoral vote counts. It is shameful that we must still
think
Nov 2015
#1
My criticism is the guy sorts the data by the criteria making the difference appear in the data
L. Coyote
Nov 2015
#72
I think a good share of America doesn't give a crap. I don't think the Democratic Leadership
rhett o rick
Nov 2015
#84
I heard recently that California is working on voting machines that will have software
JDPriestly
Nov 2015
#89
The only problem is getting those paper ballots in the ballot box from the precinct
LiberalArkie
Nov 2015
#20
Exactly the opposite if you are trained in statistical analysis, then it is truly COMIC and tragic
L. Coyote
Nov 2015
#38
Without a bit of analysis or, apparently, whose bidding you ar doing by spreading this.
L. Coyote
Nov 2015
#74
Except "the pattern of the voting results are different from the pattern of results we would expect"
L. Coyote
Nov 2015
#66
How do you explain that Kentucky voted for a Republican governor by 9 points and then for
JDPriestly
Nov 2015
#91
Democratic leadership should be screaming about this, but.....Crickets.
Dont call me Shirley
Nov 2015
#4
Brad is a journalist, not an election integrity investigator himself, a reporter
L. Coyote
Nov 2015
#34
Heartbreaking. Democracy went out with a whimper.Who will fight to reinstate it?
The Wielding Truth
Nov 2015
#76
It's an integral part of rightward leaning personalities that winning by any means is ok.
GoneFishin
Nov 2015
#8
Present them with anything credible, and they will do what they are supposed to. But this
L. Coyote
Nov 2015
#45
Yes, very disconcerting and in need of a real investigation, not in need of obfuscation
L. Coyote
Nov 2015
#46
The OP should read "Charnin says...." That does not make it true. Opposite is the case, NOT TRUE.
L. Coyote
Nov 2015
#31