Washington Post article on Ohio vote challenges...

[mak3cats]

Challenges Planned to Ohio's Presidential Vote Totals
Associated Press
Monday, December 6, 2004; Page A04


COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 5 -- When Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell certifies the state's final presidential election results, declaring President Bush the winner by about 119,000 votes, critics say they intend to present two challenges.

Lawyers representing voters upset about problems at the polls plan to contest the results with the Ohio Supreme Court, citing documented cases of long lines, a shortage of machines and a pattern of problems in predominantly black neighborhoods.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38036-2004Dec5.html

[mopinko]

1. some hope in that last 'graph

will fisher have anything to do with the case?

[cyn2]

2. One of the Ohio Supremes Challenged a vote in the past.

Arnebeck wants Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer to review evidence of election irregularities, an option allowed under state law.

The last time the law was used statewide was during Paul Pfeifer's 1990 challenge of Lee Fisher's 1,234-vote victory in the attorney general's race.

Pfeifer, a Republican now on the state Supreme Court, argued that irregularities such as discrepancies between the number of ballots and the number of signatures in poll books could have cost him the election. The court disagreed, and Fisher won.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38036-2004Dec5.html