Columbus Ohio official -- pleased as punch with election - PHOTO!

[Zan_of_Texas]

PS Franklin County is Columbus, where MANY things went wrong.

[yellowcanine]

1. Gawd - that guy must weigh 300 pounds - has he been EATING the ballots?

[laheina]

2. Elections officials should be nonpartisan.

Why haven't the powers that be thought of this before?! Oy!

[Truman01]

3. I agree with you but. . . .

Who is really NON-partisan? How can you not have an opionion? I guess you could run without a party affilitation but that is a matter of symantics isn't it? Just a thought.

[laheina]

5. Yes, but

there are many people that don't even pay attention to politics. They may belong to one party or another, but they may not.

But it seems as though these jobs are stepping stones to state office, and that should be curbed. Maybe if we promoted long term civil service employees to a rotating seat?

I dunno. It's an obvious conflict of interest though. :)

[phlesh]

6. This is the guy that was in charge of the machines...

and he held back 2000 machines while dealing more out to the repub areas and less to the demo and minority areas... this guy is a damn criminal...

[Truman01]

10. I agree it is a conflict of interest n/t

[John Q. Citizen]

8. They have obviously been willing to put in very partisan election staff

and by both parties. One problem is how do you get a non-partisan human? The current system is good for the powers that be in a lot of different places.

[LongTomH]

9. RICO

Is there a possibility of class action suits under federal RICO statutes?

[TexasLawyer]

4. Gosh Darn Those Glitches!

From CNN.com, Nov. 5

Glitch gave Bush extra votes in Ohio
Friday, November 5, 2004 Posted: 4:15 PM EST (2115 GMT)


COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) --

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 actually received 365 votes in the precinct, Matthew Damschroder, director of the Franklin County Board of Elections, told The Columbus Dispatch.

State and county election officials did not immediately respond to requests by The Associated Press for more details about the voting system and its vendor, and whether the error, if repeated elsewhere in Ohio, could have affected the outcome.

Bush won the state by more than 136,000 votes, according to unofficial results, and Kerry conceded the election on Wednesday after acknowledging that 155,000 provisional ballots yet to be counted in Ohio would not change the result. (Full Ohio results)

The Secretary of State's Office said Friday it could not revise Bush's total until the county reported the error. ...

In the Ohio precinct in question, the votes are recorded onto a cartridge. On one of the three machines at that precinct, a malfunction occurred in the recording process, Damschroder said. He could not explain how the malfunction occurred.

Damschroder said people who had seen poll results on the election board's Web site called to point out the discrepancy. The error would have been discovered when the official count for the election is performed later this month, he said.

The reader also recorded zero votes in a county commissioner race on the machine.

Workers checked the cartridge against memory banks in the voting machine and each showed that 115 people voted for Bush on that machine. With the other machines, the total for Bush in the precinct added up to 365 votes.

[Carni]

7. Woah Baby! Damn are these Republicans hot, or what?

Personally I will cast my vote for the "or what" option.