The President won by about 118,000 thousand votes.
Take 60,000 away, and Kerry would have beaten him by around 2,000 or so....
but there would have been an automatic recount.
118,000-60,000=58,000. Does this mean he wouldnt have had the electoral votes with that margin?
Bush's vote margin in Ohio in 2004 was almost exactly the same as Kennedy's official margin in the popular vote in the country as a whole in 1960. (But that's only when the votes for unpledged electors in Alabama are put in Kennedy's column, and when the vote fraud in Illinois and Texas is ignored.)