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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (667377)	1/6/2005 2:53:01 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 769670

Several Democrats said they saw no point in a challenge that might offend voters while painting Democrats as sore losers. The House Democratic leader, Nancy Pelosi of California, said she would vote to uphold the Ohio vote. Bush won by 118,000 votes in Ohio, according to a recount, and by more than 3 million votes nationwide. Scott McClellan, the White House spokesman, dismissed the Democrats' move. "I think the American people expect members of Congress to work together and move forward on the real priorities facing this country," he said, "instead of engaging in conspiracy theories." Democrats have complained of voting-machine shortages in urban precincts of Ohio that normally vote strongly Democratic. They have cited reports that some voters in those districts felt intimidated by Republican agents, or that Democrats' names were wrongly purged from registration lists. Representative John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, had issued a report claiming "numerous, serious election irregularities" in the Ohio election, attributed partly to "intentional misconduct and illegal behavior" by Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell. A spokesman for Mr. Blackwell, who was co-chairman of the Bush-Cheney campaign in Ohio, called the criticism "ludicrous." The House and Senate were last forced to meet separately to hear election challenges in January 1969. That year, a North Carolina elector who had pledged to support Richard M. Nixon broke with long tradition and voted instead for George Wallace, the independent candidate. Both chambers allowed that rare "faithless" vote to stand. The last previous such challenge arose in 1877, following the disputed election contest between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden. Hayes, the Republican candidate, ultimately became president.