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| | Congress rejects challenge to Bush election - Politics - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | But the procedure gave Democrats the opportunity to force Congress to recess their joint session as required by law and hold separate debates on the Ohio irregularities. |
 | | Bush won Ohio by 118,000 votes and carried the national contest by 3.3 million votes, and Kerry himself, meeting with troops in the Middle East, did not support the challenge. |
 | | The irregularities meant the Ohio votes “were not, under all known circumstances, regularly given,” in the words of the formal protest lodged by Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-Ohio, and Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. |
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