Scoop [New Zealand]

12/03/04

Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb [and Libertarian Party presidential candidate Michael Badnarik] [Thursday] filed counterclaims in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio against Republican Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, asserting that Blackwell is stalling the Ohio recount and abusing his authority. ... The suit filed today by Cobb, Badnarik and the National Voting Rights Institute alleges that Blackwell is abusing his discretionary authority and is, in effect, stalling. The suit asks that the recount begin immediately and be completed by the federally declared 'safe harbor' date of December 7 and by December 13, when the presidential electors are scheduled to meet. The suit also demands that Blackwell not declare the results of the election as official and final and that the presidential electors not be certified until the recount has been completed...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0412/S00045.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp