nevermind...was a test on Ohio servers

[Roland99]

http://www.megapundit.com/archives/2004/11/02/bbreakingb-president-with-slim-lead-in-ohio/

Ohio’s Secretary of State is posting results of what I imagine are early votes and absentee ballots and so far President Bush is leading by the slimmest of margins:

Bush: 49.87% with 800,950 votes.
Kerry: 49.12% with 788,799 votes

UPDATE: We all know turnout is likely to be higher this year vs. 2000. However, based upon the 2000 voter turnout of 4,705,457, the 1,606,016 that have been counted in Ohio so far represents 34% of the 2000 turnout.

UPDATE II: It appears the Ohio SOS web site is having difficulty from all of the traffic (Not from here, of course) but I know Command Post now has the story and I’m sure it is spreading like wildfire. So you may receive an error page when you try to view the Ohio SOS Web site.

UPDATE III: The Secretary of State’s Web site continues it’s unreliability, but keep trying. It does come up every once in a while.


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http://www.conjur.com/politics - Why George W. Bush is WRONG for America

[MallRat]

1. Does that sound about right?

GOP advantage in absentee balloting is neutralized by Dem advantage in early voting, right?

-MR

[still_one]

2. I did not think that was legal

[punpirate]

8. In most states, I think you're right....

... results for absentees/early voting aren't supposed to be posted until the polls close. What the law is in Ohio regarding this, I simply do not know.

[Confident]

3. IGNORE - THESE ARE TEST RESULTS

[wildeyed]

5. What are test results?

huh?

[Confident]

13. Testing to see if web page counters were working

[wildeyed]

19. phew....

thanks

[Catt03]

4. Is that legal? To post results before the polls close?

[Warren DeMontague]

6. This was up last night as well.

Don't worry, a lot of us have screen captures.

All I can say is, It BETTER Have been a test.

[LosinIt]

7. Those were the figures that were out there last night around 2-3AM

then you couldn't get to it anymore,thought they were just bogus numbers they were using to check out the site.
here is the link to that discussion:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1267445

I have a screenshot on my work computer. I'll see if I can VPN in and grab those numbers from last night.

[Roland99]

16. Ok! Great! Thanks!!

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http://www.conjur.com/politics - Why George W. Bush is WRONG for America

[LosinIt]

18. Yep, those are the exact numbers from last night

what gives?

[exliontamer]

9. You mean Ohio's REPUBLICAN secretary of state

The guy trying to suppress the turnout.

That the guy you mean?

[BUSHOUT]

10. This is absolute bullsh$t. You've been had. n/t

[bushisanidiot]

11. Many absentee ballots were cast by the military. Looks like the troops are

sick of AWoL trying to "lead" them. Normally, the repukes get a much larger percentage of the military (absentee) vote.

[DCal]

12. Ohio does not have early voting

.. not sure about absentees.

[seabeyond]

14. this is bullshit. repug are such assholes..................facts, please?

i was discouraged looking at this. repugs dont even have early voting and they put this up. this is total bullshit. need to know what is true in ohio, not games. have i said what bullshit this is. i sat here thinking am i so far off on my feel of kerry winning, that early voting even had bush ahead

can we have fact. does anyone know for sure this isnt liegitimate. full of crap bullshit

[harpo]

15. Reply from Ohio SOS webmaster...

From: WEBMASTER
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 7:32 AM
Subject: RE: http://serweb.sos.state.oh.us...


Over the past few months, the Secretary of State's office has been diligently testing our election night web reporting system.


The site you accessed, serweb.sos.state.oh.us, is a test site, containing sample results. These fabricated numbers were needed in the system to test our servers and software. As part of the test plan, these results were scheduled to be removed from the database prior to actual reporting, which begins later today.



Actual results will be available tonight at 7:30, on the live election night site, located at election.sos.state.oh.us.

[Confident]

17. IT'S A TEST - THESE ARE NOT REAL FIGURES - IT'S A TEST

OF THE WEB PAGE VOTE COUNTER, TO MAKE SURE IT WORKS AFTER THE POLLS CLOSE TONIGHT