Machine glitch gave Bush extra Ohio votes

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Officials say 3,893-vote error did not affect state result
The Associated Press
Updated: 9:17 p.m. ET Nov. 5, 2004


COLUMBUS, Ohio - An error with an electronic voting system gave President Bush 3,893 extra votes in suburban Columbus, elections officials said.


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.

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 Kenneth Blackwell.

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[OneTwentyoNine]

1. Nothing to see here,move along.....

I love it,"those extra votes for Bush made no difference in the election"

Like I've said before,I'll take off my tin foil hat on all this BBV when I see large errors like this one that HELP Democrats,funny how it always goes for Republicans. This is GD bullshit....

David

[TheFarseer]

2. Maybe more of these will come up

and we will have to review the whole thing. Even if it doesn't make a difference this election, they will have to do something about it for next time. Ohio is close enough that a few of these could make a difference. Probably Iowa too. Not sure if they have a non-paper trail voting machine. I'm pretty sure NM does which is the other close one I can think of off hand.

[matt819]

3. Only one small glitch

Sure, I can buy that. Only one small glitch. Couldn't possibly happem anywhere else. Thank goodness we caught this one. Aren't we fantastic. And we had the integrity to annouce it. That's because we know for sure that there are no other such glitches anywhere else in Ohio, or in the known universe, even. Maybe a small glitch in the elections in Palau, but not here in the US of A. No sirree bob. We caught the only one.

Boy, those folks in Ohio sure are smart. And courageous.

[Eric J in MN]

4. "no signs of other errros"

That statement will be true as long as no one examines all the punchcard ballots.