NationStates Jolt Archive

The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do. ~ Joseph Stalin

Let's recall the 2004 presidential election, in which Bush supposedly had a clear win over his opponent, John Kerry. Ohio, a key swing state had a vote recount but in the end, declared that Bush was the winner. This didn't drag on because Kerry conceded and Bush went to serve a second term.

It seemed at the time, America had closed the chapter on this and forced ahead. However, this tale didn't end there. It went to the courts, where Jacqueline Maiden and Kathleen Dreamer are charged with rigging a recount of the ballots in their state.

Their motive? To make their job easier.

Did their superiors know? The women say no, but the judge believes that they are lying.

2 election workers get 18 months for rigging presidential recount (http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070313/NEWS24/70313029) (source: AP)

I wonder, how will this play out for the latter half of Bush's term, and other factors? After all, if this does go higher up, then we get to the point where the preachers of democracy have allowed for it to be violated under their watch and ignored it to complain about their neighbour's dirty laundry...

EDIT - I know the date is a little earlier but I didn't see this post on NSG before.

I can't see this making that big of a splash. It should, but the media will be more focussed on who the next president will be rather than how the current one may have cheated his way into office.

To be honest, while its infuriating, I predict there will be plenty people yapping about how this is just a move by the MSM to dig up an old story that was old 8 years ago.

I wonder, how will this play out for the latter half of Bush's term, and other factors? After all, if this does go higher up, then we get to the point where the preachers of democracy have allowed for it to be violated under their watch and ignored it to complain about their neighbour's dirty laundry...

EDIT - I know the date is a little earlier but I didn't see this post on NSG before.
probably no effect at this point and time.

especially since even the prosecuter says it probably wouldn't have changed the outcome of the vote.

like the choice between Bush and Kerry actually mattered :p

"The prosecutor did not claim the rigged recount affected the outcome of the election — Kerry gained 17 votes and Bush lost six in the county recount"

Wow. Let's get the recall going. I'm still waiting for the outrage in Washington state to get some actual MSM coverage. A governor being elected due to voter fraud, ya know.

Just in time for the Caucus(sp?)', too!