Reply #25: According to Cobb's website [View All]

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http://www.votecobb.org/

Cobb Calls for New Recount

Friday, December 31, 2004
Congress Urged to Reject Ohio Electoral Votes

On December 30th, two days after the conclusion of the flawed recount of Ohio's presidential vote, attorneys for Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb filed an amended complaint in federal court demanding that the recount of Ohio's presidential vote be done again, this time in conformance with state and federal law. more

"The people of Ohio deserve to have their votes counted fairly and accurately. The initial recount of Ohio's presidential vote was conducted inconsistently, haphazardly and in clear violation of even Mr. Blackwell's minimal standards. with the Ohio results still not final, it would be inappropriate for Congress to certify the presidential vote, especially while it is the subject of pending litigation in federal court," said Cobb.

"There's clearly a legitimate basis for a new recount. In a previous hearing, the judge indicated that if the recount was not conducted in accordance with uniform standards that we could petition the court for a new recount," said Cobb-LaMarche Media Director Blair Bobier.

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It's my understanding that the inconsistancies included not doing a hand count in Fairfield County, even though the inital 3% hand count didn't match the machine count. Some counties allowed access to their pollbooks, others didn't.

An arguement cound be made that hand counting some counties while machine counting others led to inconsistant standards since undervotes and overvotes would be counted in a hand count and not in a machine count.

*disclaimer - I'm not a lawyer