Republicans aid Kilpatrick in recount dispute

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's dream team working to challenge the recount of his election victory includes some unlikely helpers.

Republicans.

As the recount began Thursday, several Republicans -- including Jeff Timmer, executive director of the state GOP -- joined Kilpatrick's team.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051209/NEWS01/512090449

could you give us the inside scoop, as you know it? What's the REAL reason for the recount? I thought he had won by a comfortable margin.

but then lost-
does that sound familiar?
here's a quick nutshell of situation from Jack Lessenberry:

Detroit Recount: Under normal circumstances, I would be opposed to Freman Hendrix’s decision to ask for a recount in the mayoral race. For one thing, the official count wasn’t even close. Kilpatrick had 123,140 votes to 108,600 for Hendrix. For another, a recount would be enormously expensive for impoverished Detroit. Yet these are not normal circumstances, primarily because of the questions raised about the honesty and competence of the process.

We already know about Jackie Currie’s “ambassadors” who “helped” old people vote; we know that test votes weren’t cleared from some of the machines before real votes were cast. Also, one election official took several thousand votes home for a day before turning them in. I don’t expect that a recount will change the result, but Detroiters deserve to know that there was integrity in democracy’s most sacred process.

http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=8553

Now we can begin to judge what's spin and what's not.