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By ALAN FRAM
WASHINGTON - Congress certified President Bush’s re-election Thursday but only after Democrats forced a challenge to the quadrennial count of electoral votes for just the second time since 1877.
Bush’s Election Day triumph over Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., was never in doubt. After a near four-hour delay to consider and reject the dispute over voting in Ohio, lawmakers in joint session affirmed Bush’s 286-251 electoral vote victory - plus a single vote that a "faithless" Kerry elector cast for his running mate, Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C.
In a drama that was historic if not suspenseful, Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-Ohio, and Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., formally protested that the Ohio votes "were not, under all known circumstances, regularly given." That, by law, required the House and Senate to convene separately and hold separate debates on the Ohio irregularities.
Boxer, Tubbs Jones and several other Democrats, including many black lawmakers, hoped the showdown would underscore the missing voting machines, unusually long lines and other problems that plagued some Ohio districts, many in minority neighborhoods, on Nov. 2.
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7 January 2005, 06:40
Bush’s election was never in doubt due to a republican majority in congress and senate (who defend an illigitimate president who’s election is littered with "irregulatiries", who follow bush to the largest deficit, to a war in Iraq with no justification, to a plumeting dollar, to alienate all countries that do not follow the Bush way...better be careful he might invade).
9 January 2005, 08:30
From the 2000 Presidential "Selection" to the 2004 Fraudulent, Stolen, Election W. will certainly keep Historians busy !
Where else has there been a history of a person with so little intelligence ruling the World’s superpower. All the while presiding over hundreds of thousands of deaths/murders (innocent Iraqui’s), destroying the country’s economy, environment, educational& healthcare system.
Also ruining relations with other countries all over the world. Lying, and incompetence all around him (including himself).
W. has certainly accomplished LOTS in the last 4 years and god forbid if he remains in office another 4.