The Green and Libertarian party efforts to raise funds for their jointly requested recount demands in Ohio have been successful! They’ve raised the initial $150,000 in just four days from over 3,000 American citizens!

Now, they are raising funds to mobilize for the effort, with a goal of $100,000 by November 22nd. If you can help, click here to donate.

Additionally, they are also seeking folks in Ohio to act as “witnesses” to the recount. If you can help them out, be sure to click here to volunteer!

In the meantime, it seems to me that the Mainstream Media is once again taking a nap. I’m not sure that it’s yet hit them that a complete recount of Ohio’s 11,306 precincts in 88 counties will soon be taking place. Some 70% of those counties, as I understand it, are punch-card ballots, which means we’ll soon be counting hanging chads again. Oh, well, they’ll figure it out eventually.

For the record, unlike Florida in 2000, there is a specific statewide standard in Ohio for determining the eligibility of a vote on a punch-card ballot. If two corners are detached, it counts as a vote, so the ridiculous argument of “equal protection” that Bush was able to argue to the Supremes in 2000 shouldn’t work here. Though I’m sure they’ll be coming up with something…Stay tuned…

UPDATE: Looks like someone’s finally waking up to what the Greens and Libertarians are up to! The graphic above appears broken as of this update because there is either incredibly high traffic over at the Green Fundraising website (where the graphic comes from) or someone is attempting to hack the site. Either way, looks like their little Cooperative 3rd Party “coup” is finally getting some attention! 🙂