Is the NY Times Mainstream Enough?

[truehawk]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/07/national/07ohio.html

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Democratic officials, walking a fine line between their angry liberal base and centrist voters who consider the election over, said they were not contesting the results. But they said they planned to use the results of their investigation, which is to be completed by the summer, to demand changes to the electoral systems in Ohio and other states.

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Lawyers for the Green Party and the Libertarian Party - supported by Senator John Kerry's presidential campaign - are also expected to file requests on Tuesday in each of Ohio's 88 counties seeking a recount, a process that could take several weeks. The Kerry camp said it was not challenging the outcome of the contest but wanted to make sure all votes were counted.

And on Wednesday, lawyers from the Alliance for Democracy, a group based in Massachusetts that advocates fair elections, plan to ask the Ohio Supreme Court to throw out the election results and declare Mr. Kerry the winner. Officials with the group, which is filing the request on behalf of 25 Ohio voters, said they would be able to demonstrate widespread irregularities and fraud in the heavily Republican counties surrounding Cincinnati.

[mattclearing]

1. Rock.

eom.

[bj2110]

2. Snowballs are collecting. Getting bigger. Now if we could just stop...

kicking both sides of it as it rolls down the hill, maybe it won't crumble.

[pocoloco]

3. Works for me!!

[helderheid]

4. Holy crapola

and yeeeeee-fekkin-yaaaww!

[Straight Shooter]

5. "angry liberal base and centrist voters who consider the election over"

How about those of us who fit somewhere in between?

I also believe "angry" is not the correct word. Makes it sound like we're being emotionally petty. We are outraged, and that's a different tone altogether, because we know the election is tainted and we want that acknowledged and corrected.

On the upside, the "F" word has hit the mainstream and is swimming like a little salmon needing to spawn.

[Kurovski]

6. But changes were already made

in the aftermath of the stolen 2000 election.

Look where it got us.

Get rid of corporate vote-counting. Exterminate the buggy computers.

Have everyone in the country vote with paper and pen. It will SAVE us money to do this.