Dialect Drift: "Florida" is now pronounced "Ohio"

[womzilla]

No 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"

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.

Comments

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

It would have taken a statistical miracle for the provisional and absentee ballots, by themselves, to give Ohio to Kerry. I suspect that Kerry thought that openly challenging Ohio on that grounds would lead to ten days of "Democrats are anti-democracy" rhetoric in the so-called-liberal media, which would help no one. As Lavendertook says, the concession isn't legally binding; let's see what happens.