Reply #7: just a reminder of how great Dean Heller is to work with!!!

[NVMojo]

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Nevada Secretary of State Dean Heller faxed the candidates a letter on
Wednesday with the cost estimate and advising them the money would have
to be paid by 5 p.m. Thursday.

Heller also told the candidates to identify specific precincts where a
recount would be conducted, and identify specific voting machines that
would be audited.

The secretary of state also said the candidates requested copies of the
election-result abstracts for all 17 Nevada counties, but they'd have to
get them from the clerks or make other arrangements for Heller's office
to ship the "voluminous" documents.

"The secretary of state, again, was not cooperative, was obstructionist
in our view, quoted an initial price of $500,000 as a deposit that would
be required to even begin a recount," Finley said.

"Secondly, they were very uncooperative about providing the basic data
that would be necessary to select machines for a sampling process that
their state law provides for."

He said part of the price was the cost of flying in Sequoia voting
machine experts from outside Nevada "to come in and essentially conduct
the recount."

Heller spokesman Steve George denied that the secretary of state had
been uncooperative, adding, "There are procedures that must be followed.
... If that's uncooperative, that's the law of Nevada."

Bush won Nevada with nearly 50.5 percent of the popular vote statewide.
Democrat John Kerry drew 48 percent, according to results certified by
the state Supreme Court. Badnarik got 3,176 votes, or 0.38 percent. Cobb
got 853 votes in Nevada, or 0.10 percent.

Badnarik said he requested the recount in Nevada after hearing reports
of registration fraud and voting machines not providing verifiable paper
receipts.

An audit by the secretary of state's office found no problems in the
state's new voter-verifiable receipt electronic machines. Nevada is the
first state in the nation with widespread use of the machines.

The new machines were used in 16 northern and rural counties, and during
a 10-day early voting period in the state's most populous county, Clark
County including Las Vegas.

Older electronic voting machines without printed receipts also were used
in Clark County.

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