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womzillaNo time right now for a full postmortem of the election. However, for those who are wondering about election fraud, let me welcome you to my original homestead, Franklin County, Ohio:
The Daily Kos: Ohio, Provisional Ballots, Recounts and Fraud by "Hunter"
Bush's real victory margin in Ohio, after all of the provisional and absentee ballots have been counted, is probably less than 40,000. And that's not even counting spoiled but potentially countable votes. (One of the great shames of America is that nearly 3% of ballots cast are uncountable in almost every presidential election.) If there are more than a couple of incidents like this--individual precincts where Bush somehow received 10 times as many votes as were actually cast--expect the fight to re-open.
Or maybe Ohio is the new Mississippi.
The Daily Kos: Ohio, Provisional Ballots, Recounts and Fraud by "Hunter"
Franklin County, OH: Gahanna 1-B Precinct
638 TOTAL BALLOTS CAST
US Senator:
Fingerhut (D) - 167 votes
Voinovich (R) - 300 votes
US President:
Kerry (D) - 260 votes
Bush (R) - 4,258 votes
You don't have to be the Ohio Secretary of State to figure out the problem there. Let's see if he does.
Bush's real victory margin in Ohio, after all of the provisional and absentee ballots have been counted, is probably less than 40,000. And that's not even counting spoiled but potentially countable votes. (One of the great shames of America is that nearly 3% of ballots cast are uncountable in almost every presidential election.) If there are more than a couple of incidents like this--individual precincts where Bush somehow received 10 times as many votes as were actually cast--expect the fight to re-open.
Or maybe Ohio is the new Mississippi.
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Date: 2004-11-05 08:19 pm (UTC)The Poor Man said this:
Everytime we try make headlong charge and get slaughtered, we regroup, try to figure out what went wrong, and decide we just didn't charge hard enough. We convince ourselves that there's this big army of Deaniacs or young voters or whatever who are going to ride to the rescue, and we call that a strategy. And we lose the House, and we lose the Senate, and we lose the Presidency. We lose the Presidency to an unpopular, incompetent, illiterate, garble-mouthed, radical right retard. I'm not very sympathetic to arguments that we just aren't losing hard enough, and that we'll get 'em next time, slugger.
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Date: 2004-11-06 06:27 pm (UTC)Kerry's concession came at a time NOT involving recounts, but even before the first counting was completed.
THAT is just plain wrong.
It came only hours after Edwards made that impassioned statement about every vote would count.