Hamilton Co. recount under way

[lovuian]

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041214/NEWS01/412150303

Hamilton Co. recount under way

By Cindi Andrews
Enquirer staff writer

The recount got under way in Hamilton County today with about 20 Republicans, Green Party representatives and Democrats looking on.

Two teams of four election workers are hand-counting 3 percent of the votes for president - revisiting 30 of the county's 1,013 precincts -- and then other workers are running the ballots through the vote-counting machine.

The other 97 percent of the 433,000 ballots cast must only be checked for hanging chads.

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If the hand and machine counts don't agree in a given precinct - and that had already happened twice by 10 a.m. - a senior team of one Democrat and one Republican conduct a second count

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"I've been very impressed," Pam Futerer of Hartwell as she coordinated the Green Party's recount witnesses in Hamilton County this morning. "In Hamilton County I don't think there are really going to be any problems. It's just keeping them honest."

Warren and Clermont counties also began their recounts today, and Butler County starts Wednesday


Let me make a prediction there will be a discrepency in the count!!!

[Jo March]

1. I'm praying for a miracle

nt

[alfredo]

2. Keep us posted

thanks.

[lovuian]

3. Another Article with insight to Ohio today

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041214/EDIT01/412140309

So the protestors, keeping the buzz alive on the Internet, do have a valid point. While our elections in general are honest, open and unbiased, there are enough examples of electoral incompetence, abuse, bureaucratic nitpicking, screw-ups and even fraud in Ohio and elsewhere to potentially thwart the people's will in a razor-close election.

We called for and expected a comprehensive reform after the Florida 2000 fiasco, but we didn't get it. Congress and the states must address nagging problems in voter registration and verification, balloting, poll management and vote counting before the next major election.

With such potential for problems, we're lucky that 2004 wasn't quite as close as predicted. Most Kerry supporters, recognizing this, have long since moved on. But the bitter-enders cite a laundry list of grievances - some plausible, some wild - to claim they wuz robbed:

Voting hardware and software were rigged by a right-wing cabal to produce "high-tech vote stealing." Minority voters were disenfranchised, or were forced to stand in line until they gave up and went home. Valid votes were simply thrown out. And the media is somehow "keeping a lid" on the entire scandal.

I know this is a Republican making fun of us but he is right the Bloggers just won't go away!!! :bounce: