Presidential Recount Dispute Back Before New Mexico's Highest Court

[NNN0LHI]

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBYOBL0YCE.html

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - The state's highest court is revisiting a dispute over last year's presidential election in New Mexico.

State Supreme Court justices are scheduled Monday to hear arguments from lawyers for last year's Green and Libertarian presidential candidates who say the state wrongly handled their request for a recount. snip

They submitted a deposit of $114,400 and contend that was the proper amount based on a formula in state election law.

However, the state canvassing board decided on Dec. 14 that the candidates could have a recount but only if they paid $1.4 million - an estimate of the full cost of the recount - as an upfront security deposit.

[meganmonkey]

1. Hell, yeah!

Thank you Cobb and Badnarik for keeping this alive!

:patriot:

[jsamuel]

2. WOO HOO!

Keep it alive!

[Horse with no Name]

3. Waiting for that asshole Bill Richardson's apologists

:popcorn:

[rodeodance]

4. i am glad to see they have as much 'resolve' as Jr does and putting it

to much better use--for democracy!!

[rodeodance]

5. nominate. we should all read this.

[Trillo]

6. It's amazing the amount of time and money that is spent

in the defense of failing to follow the law.

Why not just recount the ballots and be done with it? Seems like that's the simpler course of action.

[samsingh]

7. you're so right.

[loudsue]

8. Hopefully Richardson can't stop them, this time.

:kick:

[DanCa]

9. Here's a yahoo link to this story.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050829/ap_on_re_us/new_mexico_recount

See John why you shouldn't drop one of the presidential lawsuits in Ohio

[IChing]

10. Presidential Recount Dispute Goes Back to N.M. Court

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- The state's highest court is revisiting a dispute over last year's presidential election in New Mexico.

State Supreme Court justices are scheduled Monday to hear arguments from lawyers for last year's Green and Libertarian presidential candidates who say the state wrongly handled their request for a recount.

President Bush won New Mexico in the general election by a 5,988-vote margin over Democrat John Kerry.

Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb and Libertarian candidate Michael Badnarik asked for a recount of presidential ballots statewide in late November, saying there were problems with voting machines and counting of paper ballots.


They submitted a deposit of $114,400 and contend that was the proper amount based on a formula in state election law.

However, the state canvassing board decided on Dec. 14 that the candidates could have a recount but only if they paid $1.4 million - an estimate of the full cost of the recount - as an upfront security deposit.

There was no recount of presidential ballots.>>>>>snip

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/N/NEW_MEXICO_RECOUNT?SITE=MNMAN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2005-08-28-20-54-40

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Why did not the democratic party ask for recount on line with the greens and Libertarian????

[Trillo]

11. Is this a dupe?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1733873

[IChing]

13. Yes it is, sorry

Moderator, I can't seem to get the RSS feed to work anymore. I went through two pages and didn't see it.

ANY SUGGESTIONS? on the DU RSS feed?

[DemInDistress]

12. Isn't Richardson our Democratic Governor

in that State.Where is/was Kerry/Edwards? damn did they roll over quickly last November..Congrats to those Libertarians and Green People

[wisteria]

15. Richardson is the Dem Gov, and he is seriously considering a

run for President in 2008. He, as I understand it, was responsible for applying the breaks to this re-count saying it was unnecessary and would be a waste of tax payer money.(ulterior motive here maybe?). I don't know if it was necessary for Kerry/Edwards to be involved in this request. Don't be hard on them. I would like to know why a fellow Dem, wouldn't allow a legal recount process to proceed.

[burrowowl]

18. Richardson

is seeming to be at least DLC-lite, if not DLC period.
I am pissed at him. At least is fighting for the Ortega area. However, the environment is the only thing that distinguishes DLCers from Neo-con Repukes. However, corporations come to shove with the environment ... who knows!?!

[all.of.me]

20. he is working FOR the valle vidal, too

but campaign time is drawing near....

[burrowowl]

27. As of late

they want to raise more cows and lessen biking, hiking, etc. because, U$ Congress declared it has to be 'profitable' in a few years.

[all.of.me]

28. the taos news said he was giving the rivers a special designation...

so they could not open it up for drilling. the article is not online, but i will dig it out for you later, if you like. i can't remember it all.

[SoCalDem]

23. They are saving their donations for NEXT time.

:(

[CountAllVotes]

14. don't care if it is a dupe

Very interesting news at a very interesting time indeed.

Recount? YES.

Truth? YES.

Now they are going to get it "correct" perhaps?

:dem: :kick:

[Trillo]

16. Splitting up votes so that it doesn't appear on greatest page

is something not to care about?

Currently, this thread has 2 votes, the other has 4 votes. If it was one thread, it'd be on the greatest page already, wouldn't it?

[loudsue]

17. Richardson is a turncoat DLC ass kisser.

He will NEVER get my support for any run, president, governor, or anything. He single-handedly allowed the republicans to steal the election in New Mexico. He knew about it. He was told and educated about it, and he allowed it to go on.

:kick:

[AspenRose]

25. What loudsue said.

From a northern New Mexican. He's DLC alright.

[MadeinOhio]

19. Thanks for the heads up, I hope NM just goes back to paper ballots.

I see no reason for NM to get involved the same quagmire as Ohio.

[all.of.me]

21. excellent news!

:woohoo:

[texpatriot2004]

22. Glad to hear this news. Thanks so much to the Green Party for

not letting this injustice stand unchallenged!

As for Richardson, I admired him prior to Nov. 2004...now, I would not vote for him after what he did then. I thought he was a good guy. I thought he was a fighter. I thought he fought corporate greed, big business, and fought for the environment. Then, in Nov. 2004 he rolled over and betrayed New Mexico. Pathetic!

[DeepModem Mom]

24. kick

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

26. They are scrolling this on CNN!!!! Wooooohooooo!!!!!! :)

[Peace Patriot]

29. Electronic voting is a billion dollar boondoggle involving bipartisan

corruption of our election officials, that is KILLING our democracy. They wine, they dine our election officials--as recently, at the Beverly Hilton (sponsored by Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia). They verse them in the gobble-de-gook of these electronic systems--so our election officials can lord it over us, the stupid, peon voters; THEY are the "experts"--and give them "graduation awards" at phony little "ceremonies," followed by feasting and dancing and high-end shopping in Hollywad. It is so sick!

Democrats have fallen for this venal corruption, and have permitted BUSHITE COMPANIES TO GO GAIN CONTROL OVER THE TABULATION OF OUR VOTES WITH *SECRET,* *PROPRIETARY* PROGRAMMING CODE--code so secret not even our elected secretaries of state are permitted to review it! They have SOLD OUT our right to vote!

Our political representatives are now beholden to corrupt election officials and to the far rightwing Bushite voting machine corporations that they have these signed contracts with, that permit "trade secret" vote tabulation. In NM, Richardson may have his fingers in the code--I don't know--or he may just be in thrall to those who do. I think THAT's why he stopped the recount...that's what it feels like to me, protection of a personal fiefdom, and to hell with the rest of us.

...and perhaps he was also in cahoots with Terry Macauliffe and that lot of DNC/DLC mobsters, who, from what I can see, wanted Kerry to lose--the War Democrat faction that didn't want a president who was beholden to the anti-war grass roots.

We need a BIG BROOM, my friends. And the Republicans are not the only ones who need their house cleaned.