In Ohio, almost 1 in 50 votes for president don't count (votes thrown out)

[shraby]

By MICHAEL COLLINS
Scripps Howard News Service
December 22, 2004

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In Van Wert County, elections officials said the problem could be traced largely to a voting machine in one precinct. Some 400 votes had to be thrown out after elections workers in one precinct borrowed a punch-card reader from another precinct.

The order in which candidate names appear on the ballot in Ohio is rotated from one political jurisdiction to another. But elections workers forgot to rotate the ballot when they borrowed the punch-card reader in Van Wert County, making it impossible to determine which presidential candidate the voter was trying to vote for, said Carlo LoParo, spokesman for the Secretary of State's office.

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Shouldn't they have taken those votes and used their own punch-card reader to read them by hand? Thrown out is NOT an option!!!!!

[RevCheesehead]

1. That's pretty amazing...and I didn't hear about this one before!