OHIO: Third-party candidates unite in quixotic effort

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Third-party candidates unite in quixotic effort

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041210/NEWS01/412100381/1056

By John McCarthy
The Associated Press

Friday, December 10, 2004

COLUMBUS - One presidential candidate was a wayward Democrat. The
other abhorred politics until he found the party of just-the-
essentials government.

Together, David Cobb of the Green Party and Michael Badnarik of the
Libertarian Party collected less than 1 percent of the national vote
on Nov. 2. However, that has not suppressed their desire to get
pivotal Ohio to count its votes again and expose what they see as
grave discrepancies in the state's election process.

While they agree on few policies or in their ideas of what government
should do, they have united in the cause of election integrity and
third-party respect.

On Oct. 8, Cobb and Badnarik were arrested after crossing a police
line outside the second presidential debate between President Bush and
John Kerry in St. Louis. They were protesting their exclusion from the
debates. Their cases are pending.

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