AP: "Ohio 2004 starts to look like Florida 2000"

[sabra]

Sorry if this is a dupe...

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Ohio 2004 starts to look like Florida 2000

Thursday, December 16, 2004

By JOHN NOLAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS

CINCINNATI - In a scene reminiscent of Florida circa 2000, two teams of Republican and Democratic election workers held punch-card ballots up to the light Wednesday and whispered back and forth as they tried to divine the voters' intent from a few hanging chads.

Observers for the presidential campaigns of John Kerry, President Bush and Green Party candidate David Cobb kept watch from chairs a few feet away.
The scene is being repeated statewide this week in a recount in the state that put Bush over the top in the election last month.

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Also Wednesday, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., a senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, urged the FBI to investigate possible election tampering in Hocking County involving an employee of TRIAD Governmental Systems Inc., the company that wrote the voting software used in 41 of Ohio's 88 counties.


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[molly]

1. A & E just had a bio on Kerry

I pray every day - this would be the best hope for this world.

[AndyTiedye]

2. All I Really Want for Xmas is a NEW PRESIDENT!

[renaissanceguy]

3. Finally coverage by the MSM

they even mention fraud...remarkable.

I still have hope.

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[EC]

4. This was in our paper too

and it just irritated the hell out of me. Why do they have to make it such a big deal to "trying to devine what the voter meant" for crying out loud, if the hole is even dented it means that is who they voted for, it's not the fault of the voter that in Democratic districts they use lighter paper ballets which are harder to poke a hole in. For crying out loud this just burns me...

[Straight Shooter]

5. Write them and tell them your concerns

Also, were they clearing out the trays in those precincts? I've heard of that being a possible explanation for the punches not going all the way through.

I sure would like to see a comparison of rejected paper ballots all across the country, battleground and nonbattleground states, and "divine the intent of election officials" in those states.

[Emit]

6. I received an action alert from Ohio

I'm too new to post, so if anyone feels this is important, please post:

"In this email:
AcTiOn aLeRt 1: Board of Elections Public Hearing
AcTiOn aLeRt 2: Contacting Voters Whose Provisional Ballots did Not
Count
AcTiOn aLeRt 3: Oppose Ohio House Bill (HB) 1 / Ohio Senate Bill (SB) 1

please reply to: [e-mail]
***
AcTiOn aLeRt 1: Board of Elections Public Hearing
Thursday, Dec 16, 2004*** TONIGHT
6:00 pm
Franklin County Memorial Hall (same building as Board of Elections)
280 East Broad, Columbus
In their continuing effort to meet the changing needs of democracy, the
Franklin
County BOE will hold a public hearing to receive input from Franklin
County
voters on their experiences, both good and bad, during the Nov 2
General
Election cycle. Spread the word. We want to have a presence there to
show that
not everyone is satisfied with the local administration of this
election.

***
AcTiOn aLeRt 2: Contacting Voters Whose Provisional Ballots did Not
Count

The BOE posted a list on their website with the name and address of
every voter
in the county who voted provisionally. The names are grouped by
category (Wrong
Precinct- No Vote; Insufficient ID- No Vote; Not Registered- No Vote;
Pollworker
Mistake- Vote). Some of us will be part of a campaign to contact voters
whose
votes were discarded to make sure they know. This will mean looking
them up in
the phone book and making phone calls, probably. We can start a new
org: the
Columbus League of Uncounted Voters! There?s a constituency to
organize! Let me
know if you want in on that."

The email goes on to info about opposing House Bill

[sabra]

7. Thanks for the update, and Welcome to DU! n/t