Reply #31: Lucas and Hamilton County in Ohio [View All]

[highplainsdem]

This happened when the results were appearing on the Ohio state website. I saw it happen (though someone else spotted it first), and posted in that thread.

Lucas County showed 0 votes for Kerry, but several thousand votes for the Green Party candidate, who was getting 0 votes in other counties EXCEPT Hamilton County, where he mysteriously had exactly as many votes as Kerry.

That was a long thread, with the words "Lucas County" in the subject line. I don't know if anyone will be able to find it by searching, though. I think the archives failed to save a lot of threads on Election Night, because the next day when the "My Posts" feature returned, my posts from early on Election Day and the next morning were there, but none of the Election Night posts (and I read a message somewhere else suggesting a lot of those threads disappeared).

That thread contained screen saves of the website, too, showing those results.

Which were only temporary. After a lot of messages were posted here about this outrage, with some people saying they were contacting the media and the DNC, suddenly those counties were corrected. All the votes for the Green candidate were reassigned to Kerry in Lucas County. And in Hamilton County, all the votes for the Green candidate simply disappeared -- more than 30,000 of them -- without being reassigned to Kerry.

I don't know what happened, but it looked very suspicious, and I didn't see any similar "glitches" with Bush's votes. It reminded me entirely too much of what I'd read about obscure third-party candidates with no chance of winning getting bizarrely high numbers of votes when Schwarzenegger ran for governor of CA.