Yahoo: Machine Error Gives Bush Extra Ohio Votes

[Trajan]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041105/ap_on_el_pr/voting_problems&cid=694&ncid=1963&sid=96378798

Machine Error Gives Bush Extra Ohio Votes

1 hour, 36 minutes ago

By JOHN McCARTHY, Associated Press Writer

COLUMBUS, Ohio - An error with an electronic voting system gave President Bush (news - web sites) 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 (news - web sites)'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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I didnt see this around: .. Im sure it is somewhere here ....

[ClassWarrior]

1. .

[Lefta Dissenter]

2. RATE THAT BABY UP!!! (eom)

:bounce:

[LisaLynne]

3. Whhhhaaa?

If it was already posted here, I didn't see it! Ok, maybe I'm just in the midst of a Friday Freak-out, but the fact that this is some place other than a progressive blog seems huge to me. It would be great to prove fraud, but at this point, I'd settle for just calling the legitimacy of this election into question.

[Trajan]

5. I didnt see it either ....

Cant understand that ....

[kslib]

4. Perhaps someone should fix these

before the next election? Maybe paper ballots? That's what my county uses.

:argh:

[Rainbowreflect]

6. Come on everyone rate this story!