i checked back several days on the forum but have not seen anything on this? My apologies if I missed it.

I believe it will start on December 6th and will end on December 13th giving them only a week. To find out more, check out David Cobb's website:

http://www.votecobb.org

Apparently, they have the money, but they cant ask for a recount as long as the count is not finished and certified and they are still counting provisionnal ballots.

Has any OFFICIAl Ohio official said a recount will happen on any date at all, or is it just a hope of certain people a recount will start on some date?

No, because Badnarik and Cobb cant file before the official count is certified, which means when the provisonnal ballots are counted. So no official demand of recount has been filed yet.

Does anyone think that when an OFFICIAl request is made for a recount, that Blackwell won't find a way to reject the request or to make it impossible to do somehow?

This pisses me off let me tell ya. The fact that Ohio's SOS is co chairman of Bush's 2004 campaign just is so obvious.

No we dont know.

All we know is what the law says: any candidate can ask for a recount provided he pays a certain amount by districts recounted (may be precincts). The difference does not have to be smaller than a certain amount, as in Florida.

After that, we can imagine everything, and frankly, I would not blame anybody for imagining the worst.

But I dont see what a constant negativism brings to the equation. We have to use our anger to make things move. Whether it is a recount, help organize grassroots at a local level, or lobby our congressmen and senators so that they dont just sit and wait, somethng has to be done.