[MisterRepublican]

Strange there are no stories of voting problems elsewhere in the 50 states. Only in Ohio. Hmmmm.

[OrangeDaisy]

Mr. Shambora, an economics professor at Ohio University, moved during the summer but failed to notify the Athens County Board of Elections until the day before the presidential election.

I bet he thought it was important enough to tell almost everyone else on earth that he had moved, but he takes no personal responsibility for not notifying the election board in time?

[carlr]

I guess we should start voting now for the 2008 presidential election.That way we should be able to vote enough times to actually do it according to the laws that pertain in a given state.
I don`t wish to offend anyone but why is it that the word professor could be substituted with "educated f.... idiot" so often.

[Swampmarine]

Apparently, for whatever reason, Kerry voters simply couldn't vote as fast, or as accurately, as Bush voters. The thing to do is spend a couple-of-million taxpayer dollars at left-leaning universities to identify this disenfranchising phenomenon:)

[rlmorel]

I only have one word for this type of article and the people who write and publish it:

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

[First_Salute]

Speaking for my people, it is 4 degrees F. outside, and voting has not been on the RADAR for weeks.

There is a blip, which U.S. Air Force jet fighters believe, is some kind of sleigh in shape, yet they cannot catch it.

Meanwhile, here, there are just over 200,000 people who do not have electrical power. Area hotels and motels are full.

Electrical generators have been shipped into the area by the thousands, but in the outlying areas to the east and northeast, the situation is very bad.

The many streets that the city of Columbus has not plowed, are large chunks or near-ice bergs, while some roads and highway stretches have been well-plowed by the State and counties around here.

One of the problems, is also that the power went out to numerous food stores, and several hundred tons of food were in marginal shape, could be cooked, if done yesterday or today.

From the air, utter darkness prevails in areas, where tens of thousands of people are trying to tough it out.

The hospitals are averaging approx. 1 case of carbon monoxide poisoning per hour.

People in the rural areas, who had thought they could rely on cell phones, in time of trouble, have no power generation with which to make them function. Much venturing for batteries, today.

Voting, again, is not on anybody's mind.

[BenLurkin]

Economics professor and he is too stupid to vote. Sounds like he just might be a democrat.

[farmfriend]

One thing about the Dems complaining about votes not being counted and such, things will be changed to please them and it will make it nearly impossible for them to steal the elections from now on.

I find it very odd that they had no complaints about votes not being counted when they were winning.

[Psycho_Bunny]

NY Times ^ | December 24, 2004 | JAMES DAO, FORD FESSENDEN and TOM ZELLER Jr.

Hey a$$holes, how about coming to my State and turning some attention to a genuinely corrupt election where - instead of a few hundred mis-cast ballots in an election where the loss was over 100,000, there are all sorts of magically appearing ballots where the loss has fluctuated between 2 votes and 130? 

[LADY J]

I wonder why most of the biggest problems seem to be in the RAT controlled districts!!

They are still figuring out how to do election stealing better - but they haven't quite managed to do it yet.

[stylin19a]

It seems like such a confused system," said Mr. Shambora, a John Kerry supporter who blames himself for the mistake

this guy's got it right....so why is there a story here ?

[Swampmarine]

Clearly, this economics professor who can't figure out how to get his vote counted needs help. We should provide some suggestions he might understand so as not to repeat this tragedy in 2008. 1. Mandate that all high school seniors, in suburban areas only, be given courses in proper chad hanging procedures. Clearly, it's an unfair advantage that the more rural areas punch their cards ALL the way through thereby getting counted in higher percentages than other, more deserving areas. :)

[McGavin999]

You can't help but wonder where the democrats are going to get the money to keep buying votes. They keep this up and what will actually happen is voting will become so tight the dems will never be able to steal an election ever again.

[taxesareforever]

An economics professor? I'll give him an "S" for stupidity. He really does belong in Florida. At least down there he would be rubbing elbows with those who also think they were disenfranchised.

[Domangart]

When your base is made up from the stupid ect ect.

[Brimack34]

What about Wisconsin or Penn.? Oh Kerry won there.

[RippleFire]

William Shambora, 53, is the kind of diligent voter who once assumed that his ballot always counted. He got a rude awakening this year. Mr. Shambora, an economics professor at Ohio University, moved during the summer but failed to notify the Athens County Board of Elections until the day before the presidential election.

If Bill is a diligent voter, I'd hate to see what the Times thinks is a lazy whiner.

[goldstategop]

The verdict is in: there was NO VOTE FRAUD in Ohio despite the efforts of politically motivated opponents to show it existed. So far there's been more hot air than facts. And certainly nothing that requires Congress to overturn the election results when it meets in joint session on Jan. 6th to count the electoral votes.

[truthandlogic]

Funny that these voting systems were just fine to elect Clinton 2 times. No one was complaining then. Only when a Demorat looses is there claims of system failures and the need to fix them.

[weshess]

Two weeks later, the board discarded his vote, adding him to a list of more than 300 provisional ballots that were rejected in that heavily Democratic county.

"It seems like such a confused system," said Mr. Shambora, a John Kerry supporter who blames himself for the mistake. "Maybe if enough people's votes had counted, the election might have turned out differently."

At a rate of 300 per county I don't think that Ferry could make up the 120,000 difference.