the Sugar Conspiracy

Thursday, January 06, 2005

Forcing Congress to talk about it

Democrats turned Congress' quadrennial counting of electoral votes on Thursday into a battle over Election Day problems in Ohio, forcing the House and Senate to consider a challenge to the presidential count for only the second time since 1877.

President Bush's re-election triumph over Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., was not in jeopardy. But after Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-Ohio, and Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., lodged a formal protest that the Ohio votes "were not, under all known circumstances, regularly given," the House and Senate recessed their joint session as required by law and held separate debates on the Ohio irregularities.

This isn't about being sore losers, it's about ensuring that our democracy works.

UPDATE:

The senators are:

Barbara Boxer (CA)
Chris Dodd (CT)
Harry Reid (NV)
Hillary Clinton (NY)
Barak Obama (IL)

The representatives are:

John Conyers
Stephanie Tubbs Jones
Dennis Kucinich
Jesse Jackson Jr.
Maxine Waters
Robert Scott
Mel Watt
Jerrold Nadler

You can call and thank them at (202) 224-3121 or 1-800-839-5276

posted by chris at 4:19 PM
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