Somebody remind me why a vote for the Libertarian Party candidate is ever a vote on "principle".
-Dan
Posted on 12/17/2004 12:16:21 PM PST by CedarDave
A statewide presidential recount remained in limbo on Thursday, but at least one of those pushing for the recount was hoping for a negotiated compromise.
Two presidential candidates— Green David Cobb and Libertarian Michael Badnarik— have sued state election officials in an effort to compel them to begin a recount immediately.
Cobb on Thursday said his side would like to propose a partial recount— perhaps 10 percent of the votes— in an effort to verify the accuracy of the presidential contest. A full recount could proceed if significant problems were discovered in the sample, he suggested.
Concerns center on voting technology, Cobb said. "We know that there were extraordinary voting anomalies on precincts that used the new technology," Cobb said at a Santa Fe diner. Of particular concern, Cobb said, are voting machines that do not produce a paper trail; the so-called undervote, when some people vote for local offices but do not vote in the presidential race; and the reliability of optical scanning machines that count paper ballots.
The state Canvassing Board, which governs elections, gave Cobb and Badnarik until 10 a.m. Thursday to put down a $1.4 million deposit to pay for the recount. That deadline came and went with no money deposited with the Secretary of State's Office, a spokesman said.
Cobb said the matter now rests with the state Supreme Court or with a compromise with state election officials. The court did not act on the matter or schedule a hearing as of 5 p.m. Thursday.
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Funny how only States that were close for W need recounts.
-Dan
Hmmm. I can't, but I'm very sure one will take you up on that request shortly.
Like I said months ago, the Greens and the Democrats were all in bed with one another.
Things have now gotten to the point where I will want Michael Badnarik and David Cobb to make their tax returns for this year public when they file them in 2005. This is bloody ridiculous.
If the principle is to lose every four years, then I can see why voting Libertarian is the right way to go.
But if this Badnarik jerk hasn't discredited that pathetic excuse for a political party for good, I can't imagine who could.
-Dan
I won't be holding my breath.
Apparently, the Greens haven't gotten the hint. New Mexico is run by the Dim's. Any fraud found in a recount is going to favor Kerry and that will blow everything out of the water.
Why not recounts in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin??
Sorry, those states aren't in the playbook.
Don't do that unless you wanna die
Hmph. I used to be a Libertarian. A long time ago.
1. Don't know -- check the earlier threads on Topics, Local, NM.
2. Nope -- let's illegals and dead vote regularly, no ID required.
3. Yep -- every four years they reinvent them.
I didn't have any respect for the Greens to begin with, but at least I respected a good amount of the Libertarian Party platform in principle.
The LP better start working very hard to distance themselves from Badnarik, or they're going to drop form unimportant to despised pretty quickly.
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