Are we There Yet?

The Ohio recount effort is like a slow-motion auto accident. I can't tell whether I am in the car speeding off a cliff ala Thelma and Louise or just dreaming I am. Regardless, I can't take my eyes off the disaster we call Election 2004, and things are still speeding up. Any day now it threatens to be a white-hot issue, especially if attorney Cliff Arnebeck gets his way and fulfills one of my wildest dreams; deposing Karl Rove and George W. Bush.

On Dec. 21, officials named in Arnebeck's challenge learned that he planned to issue subpoenas to several high-ranking officials, including Blackwell, Bush and the president's political adviser, Karl Rove, according to Petro.

The state Supreme Court ``should halt their ability to subpoena any person until such time as they make a good faith showing for the reason to take any deposition,'' Petro said.

The last time a similar challenge was made to a statewide race came in 1990 when Paul Pfeifer contested Lee Fisher's 1,234-vote victory in the attorney general's race. Six justices of the court sided with Fisher.

Now, the Kerry campaign joining the effort lends Arnebeck's challenge the weight it needs. At truthout you can read the Kerry Files Motion to Protect Ohio Vote Evidence:

The filing by the Kerry/Edwards campaign is significant. The Yost matter deals with a recount of the votes cast in Ohio during the election. In order for a judge to consider such a motion, the plaintiff must be able to prove irreparable harm in the matter at hand, and must also be able to prove a significant chance that the case will succeed on the merits. The stumbling point for the Green Party and Libertarian Party in this matter has been the ability to prove that potential for success, because no recount would deliver an Ohio victory to them. A recount could very well deliver Ohio to Kerry, thus fulfilling the success on the merits requirement.

Finally, for those who want to take the recount fight to their own streets and need facts and data to do so, Ohio Election Fraud has a post with 84 Ohio election fraud links at Evidence of Fraud and Disenfranchisement in Ohio: A Partial List:

"This post is intended as a resource tool for those doing factual research on Ohio election 2004 (a) fraud, (b) disenfranchisment, (c) voter suppression, (d) recount obstruction, and (e) vote machine tampering. It makes no pretense at comprehensiveness, but is merely an attempt to compile links which have been posted on this site which are primary sources of evidence, or which summarize, analyze, or point to, such sources. They are listed in reverse chronological order of posting."

So...now are we there?