Posted on 11/08/2004 5:04:56 PM PST by sjaccarino
An error with an electronic voting system gave President Bush 3,893 extra votes in Columbus, Ohio. According to Franklin County’s unofficial results Bush received 4,258 votes compared to Kerry’s 260 votes in a precinct in Gahanna. However, records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct. Bush actually only received 365 votes in that precinct. If this had repeated elsewhere in Ohio, it could have affected the outcome of the election. Workers checked the cartridge in the machine and each showed that 115 people voted for Bush on that machine. With other machines the total for Bush added up to 365 votes. Bush won the state of Ohio by more than 136,000 votes, and Kerry conceded the election on Wednesday after recognizing that the 155,000 provisional ballots that were not counted yet would not make a difference. The Ohio glitch is among a handful of computer troubles that have appeared since Tuesday’s election. It is reported that 4,500 votes were lost because officials mistakenly thought a computer that stored ballots electronically could hold more data than it did.
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bad link, posted about 50 times now.
Bad link! Sniff? Sniff?
Cue weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth.
Keith Olberman is going NUTS now on MSNBC about this...he's NUTS.
Welcome to FR.
What happened to what I heard....that some of the voting machines (in Ohio I believe) STARTED the Voting DAY with thousands of ballots IN THEM?
Am I in before the zot?
wow...how about 800,000 ballots in Milwaukee for 300,000 eligible voters? There is a difference between mistakes and fraud...'rats just don't know what it is.
It's too bad that 90%+ of the votes cast in Ohio were from punch cards.
Kerry was finallly right about something - "too little, too late".
Cue the Kitties and lightning!
This might be the most irresponsible sentence found in a MSM piece I've ever, ever read.
If my aunt had a penis, she'd be my uncle.
Anyways, even IF this glitch happened elsewhere, why the supposition that, each and every time it happened, it would favor Bush? Why couldn't a malfunctioning machine as easily favor another candidate on the ballot?
This is ludicrous, mainly because what's left unspoken is that this bolsters the tin-foil wearer's "the GOP and Diebold stole the election" theory.
These people will stop at nothing to force their agenda on Real Americans!
Twit.
news is at least 2 days old. caught through the normal process of certifying elections.
>>Keith Olberman is going NUTS now on MSNBC about this...he's NUTS.<<
He IS nuts.
No ZOT yet!
How can you even watch that smug, self-satisfied dolt? Not only is he clueless, he thinks he's superior. The worst!
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