NEWS: (AP) Ohio Finds Possible Double Votes, Counts

[AmyCrat]

Ohio Finds Possible Double Votes, Counts
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/special_packages/election2004/10208111.htm
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COLUMBUS, Ohio - Election officials in one Ohio county found that about 2,600 ballots were double-counted, and two other counties have discovered possible cases of people voting twice in the presidential election.

Prosecutors were trying to determine Wednesday whether charges should be filed against a couple in Madison County accused of voting twice. In addition, Summit County election workers investigated possible double votes found under 18 names.

In the other case, Sandusky County election officials discovered that about 2,600 ballots from nine precincts were counted twice, likely because of worker error, elections director Barb Tuckerman said.
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[xultar]

1. I can't wait til all those Nay sayers eat shit and die. n/t

[Laura PourMeADrink]

it didn't say who they doubled for?

[merh]

9. Don't you think if the double votes were for Kerry they would

report that! :shrug: Sometimes, silence is golden.

[Name removed]

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[Cobalt Violet]

19. WTF is your problem.

Why don't you shut he right wing radio off and educate yourself!

Classless???

Our nation is in extreme distress and thus we fly the flag that way.

[Kerry in 04]

20. Yeah lay off. We have the upside down flag.......

because there was a thread that said if you think the election was stolen use the upside down flag as your avatar.

[Buzzkitty]

2. Holy Schnit!

Mmmm hmmm, it was busy, so we double counted nearly 3000 battles. Excellent time management skills.

[the ether]

3. 93,000 extra votes

I wonder why the article doesn't mention the.......



93,000 EXTRA VOTES FOUND IN another OHIO COUNTY.

http://www.rise4news.net/extravotes.html

[schawkfan]

4. Because there were no 93K extra votes

nm

[Name removed]

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[Nightjock]

16. Is that story true?

One poster said it was not.

[John Q. Citizen]

5. Wasn't Sandusky County recently in the news about something else?

[fearnobush]

6. Is it a Repub county?

[GetTheRightVote]

7. Please tell us what you can - Donkey or Elephant voters ???

[pkanalyst]

8. Sandusky County results...

Election night results showed W with 55.97% of the votes (17,824 with 100% reporting). Kerry had 43.68% (13,909).

Sandusky County was also a county that did not take Nader's name off the ballots; some counties whited his name out or crossed it off with a black marker.

[sabra]

10. How many more of these kind of issues will be found with a recount?

In Kerry's interview he mentioned the number 50k as the difference from him being president. Was he talking about the Ohio race? If so, does he know more info than has been reported?

[GR]

14. No He Meant If 50 K Had Changed He Would Have Won...

Let's say Bush was ahead by 100K...If 50,001 votes changed, then Kerry would be president...

[AnIndependentTexan]

11. can we blame this on Blackwell who has done everything possible

to have Bush win Ohio

[Straight Shooter]

13. No, we can't, it's all Kerry's fault and he's proved it by being "silent"

/sarcasm off

Katherine Blackwell and its dirty deeds.

[Northwestmom4Kerry]

12. Ohio is not the only place where these mysterious "double vote counts"

are happening. Same thing in Washington State!

"In the Grays Harbor recount, It looks like Christine Gregoire will pick up 508 votes after the county auditor ordered a re-count of all its ballots due to an human error in recording some votes twice.

County Auditor Vern Spatz said the ballots were counted correctly, but approximately 6,200 votes were counted twice because of human error while transferring data to the computer reporting system. The Aberdeen Daily World first reported the re-count on Tuesday.

Most of the results that were entered twice were apparently from east Grays Harbor County -- an area which is considered more Republican.

The original count had Rossi leading 231 votes. The new preliminary totaling of votes Tuesday shows Gregoire ahead by 277 votes. That’s a total swing of 508 votes. Spatz said each individual precinct's tally was correct, but he and another elections worker's curiosity became piqued when the voter turnout reached 92.93 percent -- much higher than anywhere else in the state. He said his first reaction was just "Wow" and his second was: "That's impossible." Sure enough, further review found the double-counted precincts. After ballots were counted, the results were saved on computer disks and downloaded into another computer to keep a running tally. Some of the disks were apparently downloaded twice by mistake, Spatz said. The new numbers dropped voter turnout to a more believable 75.94 percent. Spatz believes had he not caught the errors Tuesday, they would have surfaced during certification on Wednesday. After all, with a double entering, the turnout in some precincts would have exceeded the number of voters. "


http://www.komotv.com/stories/34000.htm

[Roland99]

15. Big influx of voting problems today, eh?