BBV - OHIO: Requests strain election boards, county budgets

[sled]

Requests strain election boards, county budgets

http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/state/10226814.htm

JAY COHEN

Associated Press

Fri, Nov. 19, 2004

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ross County elections director Nancy Bell ticked off
a list of information requested by groups checking election results,
mentioning everything from provisional ballot totals to voter
signature poll books.

"That's not all," Bell said Friday. "There's still another eight
things on the list."

Elections officials say such requests from political and advocacy
groups, media outlets and other organizations are straining their
staffs and budgets as they try to finish the official ballot count for
the presidential election.

"We've never received anything like this before, since I started in
1985," Bell said.

[ElementaryPenguin]

1. That's too fucking bad!! You shouldn't have spent all that money

and effort disenfranchising minority voters, you crooked, Bush sucking scumbags!!

[pocoloco]

3. Wow!

That's telling 'em!!

[tridim]

2. Well Nancy, if you're so upset

Yell at Diebold and the Pukes who fixed the election.

[Straight Shooter]

4. You were happy to cover costs of bush visiting your state

So pay the costs of the consequences and shut up!

[henslee]

5. Tough luck.,

[Pithy Cherub]

6. My sympathy like my vote,

is not for sale. Get over it!

[dewaldd]

7. I say we piss 'em off every election until they give up and just handcount

Make it more work for them to machine count than for them to hand count. They will finally decide it isn't worth it, no matter what the kickbacks from Diebold are.

[ahimsa]

8. They'll have to go low-tech in 2006..

..since I think it is obvious even to them that after this election they can't just easily change the votes after they are cast. They are going to have to keep the dissenting votes from being cast in the first place. That might be part of what they were "beta-testing" in Ohio this time.