any five people can request a recount apparently

From Stephanie Low:

Subject: Laws allow citizens to request recounts...

in various states. In Ohio, only 5 people who voted for the person who was not declared the winner are needed to request a recount. It has to be paid for however. In Ohio it's $10 per precinct--with more than 11,000 voting precincts in Ohio there is a fundraising effort going on to get this going. A for-real 527 tax exempt organization is set up for this purpose only. Their web site went up today, and details recount efforts in other states.

http://www.helpamericarecount.org/

(FYI: Keep trying with the site if you get a weird message. Apparently a number of sites related to this subject are being hacked over and over to deny access--especially www.blackboxvoting.org. If you want to see what's been on their site, do a Google search for the web address but not with ".com" that's a fake site meant to distract, and look at "cached" which gives you a saved version of the most recent site that managed to struggle to the web surface before being shut down by partisan hackers again).

In Ohio they will start with the precincts with the most outrageous results and move forward as further precinct counting funds come in.

Some people say "move on" or "get over it" or you're being a "sore loser." It's not about being "sore losers." It's about the backbone of our democracy having fallen prey to manipulation and chaos! If the recount keeps Bush as winner, so be it. The electronic voting and the dysfunctional and completely different methods of voting across the country need to be addressed anyway. How will anyone trust the results in the future without an investigation and movement to standardize Federal elections?

Please forward the like-minded if possible.

Your Political-Pain-in-the-Behind or Helpful-Information-Provider
...(you choose!),

Kate

P.S. Alberto Gonzalez, who as White House Counsel called the Geneva Conventions "quaint" and not applicable in the "war on terror" has just been named Attorney General. I hope he doesn't start singing about eagles like Ashcroft. Ugh.