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Full Recount Asked in Race for Governor
By Jeffrey Gettleman
The New York Times

Excerpt:
At a news conference tonight, he [Governor Donald Siegelman] said, "This is not about Don Siegelman. This is not about Bob Riley. This is about the people of Alabama and what's best for them."

The Riley campaign was not moved. "Governor-elect Riley is going ahead with his transition team," Mr. Riley's campaign spokesman, David Azbell, said. "Bob Riley is the next governor of Alabama. Period."

Lawyers with the Riley campaign with the Riley campaign later said that they did not think the governor had grounds for a statewide recount and that they would contest it. Alabama officials said any voter could ask for a recount, county by county, as long as the voter puts up a security bond to cover the cost, should the results remain the same. The cost is expected to be around $5,000 a county, to be paid by the Siegelman campaign.

Mr. Siegelman plans to use Democratic voters in each of Alabama's 67 counties to protest the vote. He is behind by about two-tenths of 1 percent of the 1,361,873 votes cast.
(NY Times Source)

Seems perfectly legal to me. They gots da bread (approx. $335,000.00), they spends it. It's only tax-money if the winner-results change.

Dan