How did Dennis Kucinich do in the primary Tuesday??

[The Sushi Bandit]

Since im on Maui we dont get much news from Ohio!

[IndianaGreen]

1. According to our Ohio friends that post in DU

Diebold wasn't able to count the absentee ballots, about 17,000 of them, and they are still counting ballots!

[tatertop]

2. o f====== brother

how dumb can we get

[WCGreen]

3. He won 73-27...

With out the absentees...

There were actually about 19000 county wide...

About 14600 dem's county wide....

So I would venture about 8-9k in DK's district....

[IndianaGreen]

4. Imagine a similar situation in 2008

Razor thin margin in Ohio with thousands of absentee ballots not counted due to machine malfunction. What then?

[WCGreen]

5. Think about it in the fall....

There are no restrictions on Absentee voters now....

Essentially, Ohio has become an early voter state....

It was just a malfuntion in the scanner... They tested it on Friday and it worked fine, they started to feed the ballots in Tuesday Afternoon and it jammed and malfunctioned... It was the scanning part of the device that wnet hoowey, not the tabulation...

Just so you have all the information....

Cuyahoga was the only county were the absentees were not counted on a timely basis...

There is going to be changes in the leadership team at the Board of Elections....

[GOTV]

9. Changes at the hands of Blackwell?

[eridani]

6. How he did was 76%

Machine malfunctions amount to serious vote suppression, besides which, touch screens are by their very nature expensive disenfranchisement machines. They conflate voting (slow) with tabulation (fast), thereby slowing down the entire process. Many are not going to be able to hang around long enough to vote, predominantly those not class-privileged enough to control their work hours.

Now, in a congressional district where Kucinich has wide support, he's not too likely to run into trouble in November. After all, 76% is 76%, regardless of whether the vote total is 25,000 or 15,000.

Who this is really going to hurt is Sherrod Brown, and all Dems in statewide races. Knocking down total votes in places like Cuyahoga county may well cost them their elections.

[The Sushi Bandit]

7. Mahalo for your updates!

[OzarkDem]

8. Agree, a problem in close races

Let's hope this isn't a dress rehearsal for November.