Portal:Current events/2004 November 30
November 30, 2004 (Tuesday)
- 2004 U.S. presidential election controversy:
- Attorneys for Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb asked a federal court to take jurisdiction of, and ultimately dissolve, a temporary restraining order issued by a Delaware County, Ohio, judge attempting to prevent Cobb from seeking a recount of the presidential ballots cast in that county.[1]
- Attorneys representing John Kerry filed papers to join the Cobb/Badnarik Ohio recount case.[2]
- If the Ohio recount does not begin before the votes are certified, then electors will be chosen before the recount begins.[3]
- The U.S. Department of Commerce imposes heavy tariffs against shrimp imported to the U.S. from China and Vietnam. (Bloomberg)
- Ken Jennings ends his 75-episode streak on Jeopardy!, becoming the foremost game show contestant in international television history.
- In Ottawa, Canada, sporadic violence occurs in protests against U.S. President George W. Bush's first official visit to Canada. (CBC) (Globe and Mail)
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge resigns. This is the latest in a string of resignations after the 2004 presidential election. (CNN) (Yahoo)
- A report from the International Committee of the Red Cross, recently leaked to the New York Times, describes the treatment of prisoners at the U.S. base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba as being "tantamount to torture". The U.S. military disputes this. (New York Times)
- More than 300 persons have died in flooding and landslides in Quezon Province, in the northern Philippines. Illegal logging is blamed. (Reuters Alertnet)(ABS-CBN)[permanent dead link] (SwissInfo) (ABC News)
- Traian Basescu, the leader of the Romanian opposition alliance Justice and Truth, demands a re-run of the 2004 legislative elections, claiming that 160,000 void ballots were awarded to Adrian Nastase and his Social Democratic Party. (BBC) (Guardian)
- Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio dissolves the parliament after Prime minister Pedro Santana Lopes fails to present a plan to solve cabinet instability. The elections are expected to be scheduled to February 2005. (CNN) (BBC)
- U.K. Home Secretary David Blunkett defends his actions after newspaper allegations that he used his position to acquire a fast-track visa application for his former lover's nanny, ordering an independent enquiry into his own actions and denying any impropriety, whilst apologising for inadvertently misusing government funds to obtain her a first class train ticket. (BBC)
- A South African court rules that the common law concept of marriage must be extended to include same-sex couples. Although the ruling does not immediately permit same-sex marriage in South Africa, it is considered a major step in that direction. (365gay.com)
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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "US Election: Electors to be Chosen Before Recount | the narcosphere". Narcosphere.narconews.com. 2004-02-23. Archived from the original on 2008-11-22. Retrieved 2015-10-25.