challenge to nevada cetification being heard now

PeterPan

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Tue Nov-23-04 03:44 PM
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challenge to nevada cetification being heard now

Edited on Tue Nov-23-04 03:50 PM by PeterPan

washoe county district is currently hearing a motion to grant a temporary restraining order on the nevada(coincidentally republican)dan burke. the sos is attempting to rush certification in advance of this ruling (like by 3 this afternoon) - challenging republicans in nevada? right on!

some background
posted at http://www.jameshudnall.com/blog2/

I just received an email from Reno, Nevada, journalist Patricia Axelrod, who has written about the use of Depleted Uranium in Iraq and Kosovo, and consequent military and civilian illnesses, among other topics. Axelrod is trying to get public scrutiny of vote-counting in Nevada before the state submits its closet tally to be certified as "final."

"Despite their best efforts to contain me," Axelrod says, "I have obtained a copy of the Washoe County Abstract/Voter Statement and it is very obvious that Washoe and the State of Nevada are playing fast and loose with the vote tally."

"There are at least 2400 votes unaccounted for with no under vote indicated on the tally to adjust for missing numbers. There are a number of other mysterious disappearances of vote to include a total category of voters whose vote was not entered into the final tally. The list of wrongdoings is extraordinary here because there is no oversight at all. I'm it."

On Tuesday, November 23, Axelrod plans to go to court to get a temporary restraining order, "to stop Nevada State Secretary of State from submitting their 'final' tally to the Nevada Supreme Court to be accepted."

Tomorrow is important. When the state supreme court accepts the results, they are forwarded to the US Senate as Nevada's final tally."

She says, "Briefly the Nevada Secretary of State has denied me access to all abstracts/voter statements" other than the data on their website. "I have been met with outright hostility from the Washoe County Registrar Dan Burke, who told me to 'behave myself' when I asked him questions about the county process and final tallys. When I insisted upon explanations he threatened to have me thrown out of the office . . . His direct words were 'shut up and get out or I'll have you thrown out' by police force."

Axelrod is asking for some help with the filing and service fees, which might add up to $300 or $500, in filing pro se on Monday. Documentation from the Nevada Secretary of State's office will be charged at one dollar per page. She says she's being punished for, as they put it, "calling them liars."

(Actually, recount provisions have always been built into US election law. The 2000 election has had the unfortunate effect of calling recounts into question.

Axelrod notes: "Washoe County Nevada is quite important in the grand scheme of electoral politics. Clark County (Las Vegas et al) and Washoe (Reno et al) together make up about three quarters of the Nevada vote. Clark has gone for Kerry... WE need Washoe and we win Nevada."

In other words, these few thousand votes may have shifted Nevada. It's interesting that we're not reading about a story like this in major media outlets. Pass the word along.