Now that the recount is over can journalists do a hand recount of

[cags]

Ohio, like they did in Florida in 2000? Will the ballots be available for this? Does anyone know Ohio's law on this?

[spooked]

1. Best Question of the Day!

but don't expect it to be dome by the MSM, of course.

[mdb]

2. Those ballots

Kerry never did nor did anyone else look at the 93,000 ballots in Ohio where no vote were cast for president. What happened to every vote must count?

[tridim]

3. Depends on the definition of "every vote"

Which apparently now means, "only votes that are Republican approved".

[Bill Bored]

6. I thought Kerry joined a suit to count those 93,000; what happened? n/t

[mdb]

7. He did. Good question n/t

[Junkdrawer]

4. Well, due to the unbelievably lax security the "ballots" were given...

I'm not sure what they would be counting...ballots or counterfeits.

[Cheswick2.0]

5. what ballots?

Lots of those votes were on machines. There were no ballots.

[abbiehoff]

8. Ohio's law doesn't make any difference to Blackwell

There was exactly one county in Ohio where a hand re-count was done. Ken Blackheart tried to prevent a "real" re-count at every turn. Numerous laws were ignored in the fictional re-count that supposedly took place. I don't think there is a chance that the ballots would be available to anyone for re-counting.

[sabra]

9. Is this true with an academic inist. also?

University of Chicago did something 2k, can they do it again for 2004?

[Not a Sheep]

10. Great question. I'd love to see it happen. /eom

[righteous1]

11. As long as someone is willing to pay the cost ,a full hand recount

can be done in Ohio including the undervotes as was done in Fla 2000 by the WSJ/Times

[tandem5]

12. what about the poll books? do we have access to those now? nt