County certifies election tally (Ohio Hamilton County)

[lovuian]

http://www.cincypost.com/2004/12/01/elect120104.html

County certifies election tally

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Post staff report

The Hamilton County Board of Elections has certified the results of the Nov. 2 election, with no changes in outcomes from what unofficial vote tallies showed the day after the election.
"Some of the numbers changed a bit, but the results did not change," said Tim Burke, chairman of the elections board.

When provisional ballots and late-arriving absentee ballots were added to regular ballots cast on Nov. 2, President Bush's margin of victory over John Kerry in the county shrank by about 2,000 votes from the earlier unofficial tally, said Burke.

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Burke noted that nearly 10,000 people in the county either voted for more than one presidential candidate or none at all. The 3,892 people who voted for more than one presidential candidate had their presidential votes disqualified, but their votes in other races were counted

Burke speculated that some of the 5,625 people who didn't vote for president did so as a protest against the candidates

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So 10,000 voters didn't get to vote for president!!! Hmmm 5625 of them did it to protest...thats a heck of a spin on it!!!

[Newsjock]

1. Amazing how ...

... in almost every single case, coast to coast, the later counts show more votes for Kerry. In a truly random distribution of an honest situation, the changes would be far more evenly distributed.

[FDRrocks]

2. In my mind, and I feel, in reality, there is no way John Kerry lost,,,,,

if this election were legitimate. He raped Bush on every count. The morals issue could not have been as important as they were made out to be, when Bush has Americans running around thinking they are gonna be nuked any second. Bush is obviously bad for domestic security, he only knows how to make enemies.

[RuleofLaw]

4. Agree

In all the cases of reported recount Kerry has picked up votes and Bush has lost votes. What are the odds?

[lovuian]

3. Kick

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