Franklin County, Ohio Kerry gains 7,171 (AP) [View All]

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http://www.newarkadvocate.com/news/stories/20041202/localnews/1685424.html


In Franklin County, which includes Columbus, 12,125 of 14,462 provisional ballots, or 84 percent, were declared valid.

Matthew Damschroder, director of the Franklin County Board of Elections, said Kerry had 54 percent of the total vote, or 285,500 to 237,252 for Bush. Kerry's lead in the county widened by 7,171 votes from the unofficial results, largely because a computer glitch on election night recorded an extra 3,893 votes for Bush in one precinct.

Disks from that precinct, in the Columbus suburb of Gahanna, all had the correct total and workers have been unable to reproduce the error, Damschroder said.

The rest of the change was due to a Kerry advantage in overseas absentee ballots and provisional votes, he said.