Claiming Ohio’s 2004 election results were more troubling than Florida’s four years ago, the Rev. Jesse Jackson yesterday said Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry called it quits too soon.
"Kerry conceded much too quickly, before the facts were in," Jackson said in a conference call with reporters to discuss an ongoing challenge to Ohio’s election results.
"When he pulled the plug, the national media left as well," Jackson said of Kerry’s concession on Nov. 3, the day after the election.
Since then, a Jackson-led group claims to have uncovered a wide range of voting irregularities in the Buckeye State, including tabulations that contradicted early exit polls pointing to a Kerry victory, voting machine errors, absentee ballot counting errors and inaccurate directions given to voters trying to get to polling places. [more]
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