I wonder how many ballots had Nader on them with no signs in Ohio ?

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I haven't heard much about this lately but wonder if they are checking into how many votes Nader actually recorded. Another Blackwell incident as well.

Wednesday, November 03, 2004
Rita Price and Mark Niquette
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Although Ralph Nader was ordered off the ballot more than a month ago, some Ohio voters said it appeared they had the option of voting for him.

"His name was right there, the first one," said Bobby Ward, a Delaware County resident who said he voted yesterday in Liberty Township. "It was like a normal ballot. There were no signs, nothing."

Janet Brenneman, Delaware County elections director, confirmed that she — like some other elections officials throughout the state — made the decision not to remove or cover the names of Nader and his running mate, Peter Camejo.

Brenneman said her ballots already were printed and packed when the independent candidate’s petition was ruled invalid. And because Nader had vowed to fight on in court, "We didn’t know whether he would be on or off," she said.

She said she followed a Sept. 29 directive from Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell that gave elections boards the option of posting notices in precincts "if the board determines it is not feasible to remove the two names from the ballots."

The directive also told boards they could reprint ballots or cover the names.

Brenneman, a Republican, said she ordered enough 8½-by-11-inch notices for each of Delaware County’s 840 voting booths and is unsure why some weren’t posted early yesterday.

"Some of them, I admit, did not have them," she said. "We are working on getting it checked."

Some voters in Madison County, where elections officials also used signs, complained about seeing Nader’s name on the ballot. Officials in Franklin, Fairfield, Licking, Pickaway and Union counties said they either printed new ballots or covered Nader’s name.

more… http://www.dispatch.com/election/election-president.php?story=dispatch/2004/11/03/20041103-A6-00.html