2016 Postmortem

impossible to get Dems to take voter suppression or electronic tampering seriously enough to do something about it. The Greens recounted Ohio that year and the republicans did all they could do thwart the recount, just like they did this year in the recount states. THere was enough evidence of problems in 2004 that this happened on January 6 before congress certified the election results:
"It was Democratic Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones, from Ohio, and Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer, from California, who actually challenged, on January 6, 2005, the legitimacy of the Ohio electoral vote. This forced the two houses of Congress to spend the afternoon debating voting problems in Ohio and the United States. Many House Democrats competently debated the voting problems, and thirty-one House Democrats voted for the challenge to the presidential election. Ten Senate Democrats spoke in favor of having the debate, despite allowing only Barbara Boxer to vote for the challenge.”
http://freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1095

Ken Blackwell, Ohio SOS, was also chair of the Bush reelection campaign.