AP: Ohio Certifies Bush Win by 119,000 Votes

[tex-wyo-dem]

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By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS, Associated Press Writer

COLUMBUS, Ohio - This battleground state on Monday certified President Bush (news - web sites)'s 119,000-vote victory over John Kerry (news - web sites), even as the Kerry campaign and third-party candidates prepared to demand a statewide recount.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041206/ap_on_el_pr/ohio_vote&cid=536&ncid=536

[meganmonkey]

1. Let the recount begin!!!!

(FWIW)

[lonestarnot]

2. COUNT AS FAST AS YOU CAN!!!!!

HURRY PEOPLE HURRY!

[HeyManThatsCool]

3. I just

threw up in my mouth

[rock]

4. So it's closer than the media first had it

You know, a recount could narrow that considerably.

[KeireG]

6. Exactly

So now that the votes are certified an the recount is going through we can expect a significant number of votes to be added to Senator Kerry's column.

[bones_7672]

5. Blackwell, on Fox, said the counties have up to ten days to do recount.

That is, of course, from the time the GLIB's request is received.

[bones_7672]

7. Blackwell also said that 3% of the ballots will be hand-counted.

The other 97% will be counted as they originally were.

[righteous1]

8. Wasn't that similar to how they ran NH recount?

[trudyco]

9. What about those precincts where it looked like they

had the ballots tallied on the wrong precinct's machine - giving at least an inflated number for the third parties.

Ironic but maybe the GLibs should ask for a hand recount of a precinct that gave them too many votes!

trudyco

[bones_7672]

10. They can ask, but the State doesn't have to grant it.

That is not part of the state recount procedure.

[read the law first]

11. Thank you for posting. I've been trying to find out. count! count! now!

Let the recounts begin!