I can’t help but think the MSM is not going to let this go. They are going to bide their time and get revenge. I’d look for the Liberal Media to drum up a nice big fat juicy scandal for W’s 2nd term. Usually 2nd terms are ripe for them anyway, people have been there awhile, baggage piles up, maybe people get sloppy? Heck, the media doesn’t even need a real one, they can fabricate one. Dan Rather? Whaddaya got cooking? Wait and see, its only a matter of time. They can afford to be patient.

Posted by: docweasel at November 5, 2004 01:13 AM

The election breakdown at the C-Span site says that Kerry won Franklin County, Ohio; the totals on page 39 say the same thing. It is possible for voters to vote on one items and ignore the others, particularly when pressed for time.

Posted by: sundance at November 5, 2004 01:57 AM

No way. The number is insane. Just scroll down the data
and it sticks out like a sore thumb. Who is gonna skip voting
for a senate seat? That would be the exception not the rule.

Someone needs to add up all the bush votes in the county
using the given data and check if the counties total matches
the media sites like CNN.

Posted by: agrosquid at November 5, 2004 02:31 AM

Ohio can be an interesting state politically, I ran accross a website, but unfortunately I have lost its address where the Black vote was analysed over some past elections

Big surprise in some precincts the Democratic candidate got over 110% of the Black Vote?

No that was not a typo to clarify

The Democratic candidate got over

One hundred and ten percent of the Black Vote in one precinct.

Posted by: Dan Kauffman at November 5, 2004 06:52 AM

This deserves non-partisan investigation.

Posted by: aebrain at November 5, 2004 07:04 AM

Looks like the press is on it. The Ohio Beacon Journal has an article here: http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/state/10103910.htm?1c

It was a computer error. Bush got 365 votes in that precinct.

Posted by: Dave B. at November 5, 2004 07:51 AM

Any election looks suspect when using these machines to tally votes. I know the right won, and because of this some the local CP populace will overlook any ‘irregularities”. However, if the left should win any future elections using these machines (and they will), the right may have some concerns that would be overlooked by the left. Turnabout is fair play. But it still stinks.

You have to have a paper trail in elections. It’s that simple. A program telling you vote numbers is unacceptable. Programs get bugs. There is much hidden. How many of you have spyware and viruses that you don’t know about?

Since the right is all about successful business (except for W - he still was a useless businessman) let me explain it in finance terms: any of you who work in manufacturing, do you conduct inventory by looking at what’s in the computer system? You may, but you always back it up with a physical count. Rarely in business do stock and books match. The next time you have to go do inventory, tell your boss that looking at the PO’s and invoices will do thank-you-very-much and see it he doesn’t admonish you for stupidity. Creative accounting only goes so far.

When you submit your expense sheet to your boss for reimbursement, you don’t send him an e-mail saying “you owe me some cash for lunch”. You give him the original receipt, with all details and backup. The system has to be transparent, or people will take advantage. Humans are like that.

It’s especially worrisome whn the CEO of one these companie’s wrote a letter pledging his commitment “to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President” last fall.

Posted by: Vince at November 5, 2004 09:27 AM

Hey Dave B. thanks for the link.

Here’s a scary quote from the article:

Director of the Franklin County Board of Elections couldn’t explain why the computer reader malfunctioned.

They recounted using the faulty machines internal memory.
Why should we assume the records in internal memory are any more accurate than the result written to the memory card?

Hopefully there’ll be some follow-up on this malfuction.

ok, ep

Posted by: elvispresley2k at November 5, 2004 10:08 AM