McCain camp will use 'legal remedies' if election turns foul David Edwards and Andrew McLemore

Published: Sunday November 2, 2008





Print This Email This If the McCain campaign believes voter fraud from groups like ACORN tainted the result of Tuesday's election, it will resort to "legal remedies," McCain campaign manager Rick Davis said.



Fox's Chris Wallace asked Davis the following: "But I just want to make it clear. You reserve the right, if you feel that something has gone down wrong in any state in the country, that you'll go to court."



Davis responded: "Absolutely. There's no question that we're going to monitor this election. We have the largest election day operation in the history of our party's activities to ensure that we have a fair and honest election."



Alluding to past election fraud, Wallace asked Davis if allegations of Republicans suppressing voters could create a "blizzard of lawsuits" that would prevent a decisive tally for weeks after Tuesday.



"I think on Wednesday morning you'll wake up and John McCain will be president elect," Davis said.



When Wallace questioned Davis about recent allegations that Republicans are preventing thousands of eligible voters from casting their vote, Davis said the fault lies with "liberal activist groups."



"What's happened is a bunch of liberal activist groups like ACORN and others... have taken it upon themselves to try and frame this election as anything but honest," Davis said.



The GOP has denounced the accusations of voter suppression as a "reckless strategy" of the Obama campaign, which has released fliers warning of the issue.



Davis pointed to the federal investigation underway against ACORN as an example of liberals, and not Republicans, being guilty of fraudulent election practices.



"In fact, if there's anything to look at, it's the manipulation of these voter rolls before the election that's caused so many problems," Davis said. "We're not going to stand for it."



But the Obama campaign is already fighting attempts by the GOP to suppress voters in battleground states like Indiana, said Obama campaign manager David Plouffe.



"Our opposition tried to limit the number of early vote sites," Plouffe said. "So our argument on this is simple. We want it to be as easy as possible for people to vote. We're obviously going to monitor all the precincts and battleground states to make sure none of the normal suppression activities are effective."



This video is from Fox's Fox News Sunday, broadcast November 2, 2008.









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