Yahoo: FEC OKs Unlimited Donations for Recounts

[No Mandate Here.]

<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=ap/recount_fund_raising>

WASHINGTON - Presidential and congressional candidates can raise unlimited donations to finance recounts as President Bush (news - web sites) and Al Gore (news - web sites) did for their high-stakes Florida dispute in 2000.

Four of the Federal Election Commission (news - web sites)'s six members said Thursday that the FEC's long-standing rule on recount fund raising remains in effect, which means federal candidates can set up separate recount funds and finance them with unlimited donations from individual contributors. Candidates cannot accept corporate, union or foreign money.

The FEC's guidance was issued informally in comments by a majority of the commission's members. The commission stopped short of issuing a formal advisory opinion on the matter after a Senate candidate withdrew his request for one.

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Remember when * was massing troops and ships in the Persian Gulf and in Turkey for months before the invasion, all the while saying that there is nothing planned? This is the same thing, just moved into a different location.

This article, plus the hired goon poll intimidators in Ohio, and any number of other intimidation stories cause my hair to stand on end. I hope there is a landslide, and * and president Rove isn't even tempted to do any of this stuff.

[Not Me]

1. Oh Mr. Soros....................

n/t

[dogtag]

2. It seems to me that recounts and anything to do with voting

discrepancies should be paid by the FEC with public funds, not by the campaigns. There's something wrong with stopping a recount because the wronged party has run out of funds.

[asjr]

3. I am anxious to know how much money it will

take to count the non-existent paper trail on the Diebold machines.

[Moderator]

4. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=939332