Politics that won't quite die!

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All right, now there's the rumor going around that Kerry actually won Ohio. The only info I've found on this was a speculative piece written by some guy named "Greg Palast" in which he basically makes guesses about what uncounted ballots might have shown. All the discussion I've seen eventually traces back to this article.

If there is or was real fraud or so on that might have affected the election, the Democrats have a responsibility to have it investigated (for that matter, so do the Republicans, but it would be a bit much to expect that much selfless devotion to the cause of Justice). It should be noted that Kerry's concession HAS NO LEGAL BASIS. That is, if it were to turn out, against all apparent fact, that he DID carry Ohio, he would be President.

Is there a method to force the consideration of these facts?

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Even the Boston Globe isn't jumping on this bandwagon

[murbin.livejournal.com]

Internet buzz on vote fraud is dismissed, Boston Globe, Nov 10, 2004

Money Quote:

Much of the traffic is little more than Internet-fueled conspiracy theories, and none of the vote-counting problems and anomalies that have emerged are sufficiently widespread to have affected the election's ultimate result.

Kerry campaign officials and a range of election-law specialists agree that while machines made errors and long lines in Democratic precincts kept many voters away, there's no realistic chance that Kerry actually beat Bush.

''No one would be more interested than me in finding out that we really won, but that ain't the case," said Jack Corrigan, a veteran Kerry adviser who led the Democrats' team of 3,600 attorneys who fanned out across the country on Election Day to address voting irregularities.

''I get why people are frustrated, but they did not steal this election," Corrigan said. ''There were a few problems here and there in the election. But unlike 2000, there is no doubt that they actually got more votes than we did, and they got them in the states that mattered."

The article does list some the irregularities found. It also states that six democrat members of Congress are calling for an investigation. It doesn't say who the six are.