New article on recounts in Franklin, Cuyahoga, Hamilton.

[kuozzman]

I think Bob and Todd Urosevich may have written it. FYI: None of these three counties were 100% hand-recounted. All passed the 3% loophole.....Make sure you read the end of the article too....grrrrr.....
http://www.newsnet5.com/news/4006973/detail.html

With 45 of Ohio's 88 counties reporting final recounts to The Associated Press Friday, including the large urban counties of Cuyahoga, Hamilton and Franklin, Bush has gained 303 votes and Kerry has gained 443 votes.

Neither campaign expects the recount to change the outcome. The Republican Bush won Ohio's 20 electoral votes by a margin of about 119,000.

Franklin and Cuyahoga counties were among the many reporting little or no change from the recount. In Cuyahoga County, home to Cleveland, Bush lost six votes while Democrat Kerry gained 17, which election workers attribute to hanging chads and worker error.

The largest change was in Hamilton County, which includes metropolitan Cincinnati, where Bush gained 212 votes and Kerry 180. Kerry also picked up 125 votes in Mahoning County.

The biggest loss to date was for Bush in Knox County, where he dropped 13 votes. Kerry lost 8 votes in the central Ohio county.

Pamela Swafford, deputy elections director in Hamilton County, attributed the differences to chads falling out of punch-card ballots during re-handling.

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2. They have to be pretty dumb...

To screw with Cuyahoga. There's direct evidence of errors in the precinct data with the ballot mixing and 3rd party vote that no elections expert would question.

So I guess they just handed us proof positive that the "recount" doesn't catch even the most blatant of errors.