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Bush Wins Ohio Again...

The latest recount in Ohio, at the request of the Green and the Libertarian Parties, shows that President Bush still won, reports the AP. So, the Yahoo-AP headline reads, Ohio Recount Ends, Shows Vote Closer. I guess the $1.5 million dollars Ohio had to spend was worth it, right? Wrong! Here's a quote:

Election officials have finished the presidential recount in Ohio, with the final tally shaving about 300 votes off President Bush six-figure margin of victory in the state that gave him a second term.

The recount shows Bush winning Ohio by 118,457 votes over John Kerry, according to unofficial results provided Tuesday to The Associated Press by the 88 counties. Lucas County, home to Toledo, was the last to finish counting.

The state had earlier declared Bush the winner by 118,775 votes and plans to adjust its totals to reflect the recount later this week.

The Kerry campaign supported the recount, but said it did not expect the tally to change the election winner. Supporters of the recount, requested by two minor party candidates, said they wanted to make sure every valid vote was counted.

I also didn't notice too much in the way of headlines or reporting about this from the major news networks.

So after all of that, is the election -- which George Bush won by over 3 million popular votes -- finally settled? Of course not:

But the completion of the recount will not bring an end to questions surrounding the vote in Ohio.

A group of voters citing fraud have challenged the election results with the Ohio Supreme Court. The voters, supported by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, have cited irregularities including long lines, a shortage of voting machines in minority precincts and problems with computer equipment.

Attorney General Jim Petro has called the challenge frivolous and argued that the state Supreme Court does not have jurisdiction over a federal election.

Cliff Arnebeck, an attorney representing the voters in the challenge, wasn't taking much stock in the recount effort. He questioned why there was no independent investigation into the accuracy of counting machines to determine whether the machines had been tampered with.

Democrats couldn't get past the 2000 election and it would appear that some of them refuse to get past this last one too. And they continue to wonder why middle-America tunes them out...