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Just being listed twice does not mean it's double counted.

I worked for years in Oklahoma (ie worrying about fraud all the time) Republican politics. Here are some thoughts from that experience about this. First, I'm not saying that this overvoting couldn't be cheating, but on the scale people are talking about here there would have to be dozens of other, less visible ways, for the opposition to cheat if they wanted to try. Secondly, Bush carried Ohio in 2000. Given the overall increase inturnout, nothing around the state of Ohio looks all that different, and so its no suprise he wins again. Takin 97,000 votes off of either side would NOT yield a normal result. Thirdly, I can bet you that Rove saw the precinct level data a week ago tomorrow. Do we think he would actually miss a 97,000 vote scam? So what are we to conclude. I conclude that Cuyahoga (sp?) County uses an extremely non-user friendly format to report its data, but they have also publicly warned us that there are misleading totals at the aggregate levels. We won't know the truth about my conjecture until true precinct level data are available, but we know that the county has advertised this vote total data as unreliable.