Roll Call: Parties gird up for possible recount battles

[kpete]

“Most cycles there are three or four races that are unresolved in the days immediately following the election,” said Chris Sautter, a Democratic recount consultant and lawyer. “Because of the large numbers of races in play this cycle — combined with the changes brought on by the Help America Vote Act — there will be a greater number of recounts than usual.”

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In August, Democratic campaign finance lawyer Marc Elias and others, on behalf of Senate Republicans and Democrats and the Pennsylvania GOP, asked the FEC to clarify how recounts may be financed. Agency commissioners voted 4-2 to impose individual hard-money contribution limits to re-tallies: $2,100, if made directly to candidates’ campaigns; $10,000, if made to state party committees.

Estimates at the time of the FEC’s early-October decision indicated statewide recounts could approach $5 million, a tab that often must be paid within days of an election and one that would appear to be well outside the usual reach of a campaign’s bank account.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Party_lawyers_consultants_and_strategists_gird_1102.html

[democrat_patriot]

1. So....how does one recount without a paper trail?

[jpak]

2. A judge thows out the election and they redo it with paper ballots...

n/t