Editing Ed Markey (section)

====Objection to certifying the 2004 U.S. presidential election results====
Markey was one of the 31 House Democrats who voted not to count Ohio's 20 [[Electoral College (United States)|electoral votes]] in the [[2004 United States presidential election|2004 U.S. presidential election]].<ref>[http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll007.xml Final Vote Results for Roll Call 7]. Clerk.house.gov. January 6, 2005.</ref> In 2004, President [[George W. Bush]] (the Republican nominee) had defeated Senator [[John Kerry]] (the Democratic nominee) in Ohio by 118,457 votes.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/29/politics/ohio-recount-gives-a-smaller-margin-to-bush.html|title=Ohio Recount Gives a Smaller Margin to Bush|first=Albert|last=Salvato|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 29, 2004}}</ref> Without Ohio's electoral votes, the 2004 presidential election would have been decided by the U.S. House of Representatives, with each state having one vote, as dictated by the [[Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution]].