A concession has no legally binding effect.

[George_S]

3. A concession has no legally binding effect. Presumably a concession by Gore would be accompanied by a request that his allies cease litigation efforts on his behalf and everything gets dismissed as moot. Still, until the electoral college votes, Congress opens and accepts, and the hand goes on the bible, anything can theoretically happen. However, the scenario we experienced with the retracted concession, like most everything else of the past month, is very, very unusual and was attributable to the erroneous media reports that we all were relying on. So if there is another concession, it will be for keeps.

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/election/electionques.htm

[jean]

1. are the Kerry lawyers litigating?

[Steelangel]

2. They want to but Kerry said no.

[George_S]

6. They don't need to at this point

If he won the votes, he will still win.

[Steelangel]

8. so you mean that Kerry/Edwards have something up in their sleeves?

[Ducks In A Row]

3. and they kerry/edwards are now working to get the votes count

but you will not hear about it, remember the media are fuckers

[lanparty]

4. Kerry doesn't have the balls to fight ...

It's over. Though, Betty Castor seems to be fighting in Florida. And I hope that the electronic voting machines get fingered for challenges. This is THE MOST important issue facing our nation.

Electronic voting may have stolen MILLIONS of votes this election. We will NEVER know!!! There is NO WAY to authenticate this since the voter makes no indelible mark!!!!

[George_S]

9. It's not over.

[kiahzero]

5. Yeah, I posted this earlier.

Doesn't stop the Kerry-hating assholes from flaming.

Facts are meaningless to them.

[George_S]

7. Ah, didn't see the earlier post... remember the trolls folks!

A lot of Kerry bashers are merely freeping trolls.

[BQueen]

10. I expanded on this thought in another thread

here -- http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2590721#2592112

Long, and I haven't had the time to flesh out the ideas further since I first wrote it yesterday, but I think it's sound.

weigh in with comments/critiques please -- those of us here who understand that politics is not just war but theater need to hold this together till the trolls die down and everyone stops feeling less betrayed...