Reply #22: As one who actually worked on the recount, I really wish you...

[Yellow Horse]

please wouldn't use the words "Ends in Laughable Outcome" in your headline.

IT DID NOT.

Ohio was the first time anybody has been successful in bringing about any kind of a full state-wide recount of a presidential vote (even though, by law, we were only able to get a full hand count on 3%.) Those of us who were actually on the ground in Ohio don't think what we did was "laughable" at all.

The recount did EXACTLY what we expected it to do. As I said before on here, no, we didn't find 119,000 spare votes for John Kerry hiding under some Buckeye rock. But what we DID do was find a lot of things that lead to more questions -- there is much reason to investigate further. And we found a lot of things that are just screaming for change and improvement.

Several thousand volunteer observers worked very hard during the Ohio recount to document every detail we could, so that investigations can proceed, and hopefully changes can be made for the future.

Now for the long haul -- we all need to work to bring about those investigations and changes.

Marybeth