Finally, the Olberman Transcript from Friday night...No talk about

[KoKo]

vacation that I could find...

Anyway here's the part about the vote count with a link to the rest from his show:

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The Associated Press finished its tallying in Iowa. That‘s permitting NBC News to call the last four states, Iowa, New Hampshire, New Mexico, and Wisconsin. All but New Hampshire and Wisconsin went for Senator Kerry. The others for Mr. Bush. That gives the president a final electoral count of 286 to Kerry‘s 252. The lowest for any other president since Woodrow Wilson in 1916. A 34-vote margin. Not enough to make the question of what really happened in Florida and Ohio moot. Nor in North Carolina.

In another state with a Bush victory, another glitch wiped out 4,500 votes. Not significant in a state in which the president won by 425,000 unless of course there were 20 other instances.

UniLect Corporation told the state election board in North Carolina that its electronic voting machines had a memory capacity large enough to store sentence 10,000 votes. They were wrong. After 3,000 votes, the machines in Carteret County simply stopped counting. And then there is infamous multiplying machine of Cahana (ph), Ohio. 638 voters cast presidential ballots there. Senator Kerry got 260 votes. President Bush, 4,258. Cahana is in Franklin County, suburban Columbus, the only county in Ohio to use machines made by the Danaher Corporation of Illinois.

Ohio officials say Mr. Bush actually received not 4,200 but 365 votes in that precinct. The bonus 3,893 he got will be subtracted from the final state count. Already subtracted, the records of the mistake which have today been excised from the Franklin County Web site. Democrats and critics of our Rube Goldberg election processes say that it is an extraordinary coincidence that all the reports of voting machines going crazy turn out with the machines giving votes to Mr. Bush or subtracting them from Senator Kerry.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6435105/

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1. It was at the end

and I feel fairly confident that it was a gag -- not the vacation stuff, but that he didn't know about it.

[rwheeler31]

2. Simple have someone connected call.

nt

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3. The vacation thing was a gag

In another thread, a DUer posted an email from Keith that said the vacation had been planned for months.

Watching Keith run around the studio was pretty funny, though.

[BlueInRed]

4. I wrote the show and got a response from Keith

He said: "I'm taking a vacation next week but I'll still be blogging and we'll still be reporting on it during the show in my absence. Not to sweat..."

So, it appears all is well.