Reply #35: You want to claim that what happened in Gahanna in 2004 was an aberration, and Bush's vote WASN'T [View All]

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deliberately padded? No word went out to GOP officials to pad the vote, eh? Gahanna was a 'rogue' operation, eh?


Voting System Error Gives Bush Extra Votes in Ohio
November 06, 2004 in print edition A-17
An error with an electronic voting system gave President Bush 3,893 extra votes in suburban Columbus, elections officials said Friday.

Franklin County’s unofficial results had Bush receiving 4,258 votes to Democrat John Kerry’s 260 votes in a precinct in Gahanna. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct. Bush’s total should have been recorded as 365, officials said.

Bush won the state by more than 136,000 votes, according to unofficial results, and Kerry conceded the election on Wednesday after saying that 155,000 provisional ballots yet to be counted in Ohio would not change the result.

Deducting the erroneous Bush votes from his total could not change the election’s outcome, and there were no signs of other errors in Ohio’s electronic machines, said Carlo LoParo, spokesman for Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell. Blackwell, a conservative Republican, was co-chairman of Bush’s campaign in the state.

Franklin is the only Ohio county to use Danaher Controls Inc.’s ELECTronic 1242, an older-style touch-screen voting system. Danaher did not immediately return a message.

Sean Greene, research director with the nonpartisan Election Reform Information Project, said that although the glitch appeared minor “that could change if more of these stories start coming out.”

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http://articles.latimes.com/2004/nov/06/nation/na-vote6

"no signs of other errors in Ohio’s electronic machines, said Carlo LoParo, spokesman for Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell."