Ohio Justice Throws Out Election Challenge
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: December 16, 2004
Filed at 3:54 p.m. ET
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The Ohio Supreme Court's chief justice on Thursday threw out a challenge to the state's presidential election results on a technicality, ruling that the request improperly challenged two separate election results.
Chief Justice Thomas Moyer ruled that state law does not allow voters to challenge the results of more than one race in a single complaint. The challenge likely could be refiled.
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Yes; there was just a flash news update on CNN during Judy Woodruf's program "Inside Politics", which said that the Ohio vote recount has been thrown out on a technicality by the Ohio Supreme Court. 
Then it was announced that this cancellation will be appealed.
That was all that was said in the announcement.
The Ohio Supreme Court has a Republican majority of, I believe, about 6 to 2.
This is like a dictatorship, almost like what happened in '00 with the U.S. Supreme Court giving the election to Bush.
If the vote recount starts up again, how can it be prevented from being cancelled or overturned?
Then it was announced that this cancellation will be appealed.
That was all that was said in the announcement.
The Ohio Supreme Court has a Republican majority of, I believe, about 6 to 2.
This is like a dictatorship, almost like what happened in '00 with the U.S. Supreme Court giving the election to Bush.
If the vote recount starts up again, how can it be prevented from being cancelled or overturned?
We must have been posting at the sme time. Sorry.
Edit: Just checked, both were posted at 4:46.
Edit: Just checked, both were posted at 4:46.
wliberty - no problem. Maybe the mods can combine them.
Looking forward to seeing this refiled! ASAP!
Looking forward to seeing this refiled! ASAP!
Need to rate this Yahoo Story up Challange needs to be Refiled
Ohio Justice Throws Out Election Challenge
Thrown out on a technicality, can be refiled.
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Without listing specific evidence, the complaint alleges that 130,656 votes for Kerry and John Edwards (news - web sites) in 36 counties were somehow switched to count for the Bush-Cheney ticket.
The allegations are based on an analysis comparing the presidential race to Moyer's Supreme Court race against a Cleveland municipal judge.
But nothing in state law or any previous court decision allows challenges to be combined, Moyer said.
"Were this court to sanction consolidation here it would establish a precedent whereby twenty-five voters could challenge, in a single case, the election results of every statewide race and issue on the ballot in any given election," Moyer wrote.
Messages seeking comment on the court decision were left for Jackson and Arnebeck.
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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/a...el_pr/ohio_vote
Ohio Justice Throws Out Election Challenge
Thrown out on a technicality, can be refiled.
Snip
Without listing specific evidence, the complaint alleges that 130,656 votes for Kerry and John Edwards (news - web sites) in 36 counties were somehow switched to count for the Bush-Cheney ticket.
The allegations are based on an analysis comparing the presidential race to Moyer's Supreme Court race against a Cleveland municipal judge.
But nothing in state law or any previous court decision allows challenges to be combined, Moyer said.
"Were this court to sanction consolidation here it would establish a precedent whereby twenty-five voters could challenge, in a single case, the election results of every statewide race and issue on the ballot in any given election," Moyer wrote.
Messages seeking comment on the court decision were left for Jackson and Arnebeck.
You have given the news article Ohio Justice Throws Out Election Challenge a rating of 5.
Its current average rating is 3.82 with 110 vote(s).
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Done 3.91 126 votes
don't forget that the freepers read our boards and are likely the ones hammering the story down with low ratings.
they haven't yet made a public call to keyboards but they're following DUs take on the issue:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1...sts?q=1&&page=1
they haven't yet made a public call to keyboards but they're following DUs take on the issue:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1...sts?q=1&&page=1
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