OHIO: Amount of Dem Ballots Cast Twice the Number of Registered Democrats (Clermont County)

[VolcanoJen]

Massive Crossover Voting in Clermont County - County Runs Out of Ballots

Well, at least this helps explain Ohio a little more. Thanks, Rush Limbaugh fans!! (Clinton won Clermont County, a suburb of Cincinnati, 61% to 37%.)

The amount of Democratic ballots cast in Clermont County for the Ohio primary was double the number of registered Democrats.

"We never guessed that there would be that many persons wanting to vote Democrat in Clermont County," said Judy Miller, director of the Clermont County Board of Elections.

There are slightly more than 14,000 registered Democrats in Clermont County, but more than 25,000 Democratic ballots were cast.

Voters who showed up to polling places in Amelia and Union Township couldn't vote because there were no ballots.

"I came here around 4 p.m. to vote and I was told they had no Democratic ballots – they had been out of them for over four hours," said Shay Stevens.

[Clintonista2]

1. More Republicans voted for Obama than Clinton

Like sharks, they smell blood (the weaker candidate, Obama).

[VolcanoJen]

3. I think you've got that a little backwards.

And Obama won the cities in Ohio by huge margins... in the suburbs, weird-ass things were going on, it seems.

[rox63]

4. Actually, it looks like the repukes voted for Hillary

Just like their buddy Rush told them to.

[Clintonista2]

5. Actually, they voted for Obama

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/epolls/#TXDEM

Go to page 4.

Obama got 54% of Republicans, Clinton got 47%

[Window]

9. WOW! That's a huge difference. NOT.

[Clintonista2]

14. Huh?

8% more republicans voted for Obama than Hillary. Therefore, more republicans voted for Obama than Clinton, thus disproving the poster above. Is it THAT hard to understand?

[MonkeyFunk]

6. Nope

more republicans voted for Obama. That's a fact.

This line of argument is just stupid.

[xultar]

2. IT could have been Republicans for Obama. Plus you forget Rush was about to endorse Obama.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/15/us/politics/15rush.html?ex=1360818000&en=c3fef4deb58eebd6&ei=5124&partner=digg&exprod=digg

[VolcanoJen]

19. Not likely in Clermont County.... home of "Mean Jean" Schmidt.

That's a pretty old link you posted, by the way. Here's a newer one.

Rush Limbaugh Explains Why He's Urging Republicans in Texas and Ohio to Vote for Hillary Clinton

[MonkeyFunk]

7. More Republicans voted for Obama than for Clinton

This argument isn't going to fly. Nice try.

[VolcanoJen]

17. never mind

:-)

[Window]

8. Tsk, tsk. Do you know if they ever finished straightening out the votes in NY.

Ya know, like in HARLEM where Hillary got 100% and Obama received 0%. Or in BROOKLYN, which has a higher percentage of Blacks than HARLEM -- that was 100% Hillary and 0% Obama also.

[GCP]

10. Link?

Or urban myth?

[Window]

22. No. No urban myth.

I have no link, but you can search their archives. You might also look for a second article where Mayor Bloomberg said it was FRAUD. The following is from the New York Times:


February 16, 2008
Unofficial Tallies in City Understated Obama Vote

By SAM ROBERTS

Black voters are heavily represented in the 94th Election District in Harlem’s 70th Assembly District. Yet according to the unofficial results from the New York Democratic primary last week, not a single vote in the district was cast for Senator Barack Obama.

That anomaly was not unique. In fact, a review by The New York Times of the unofficial results reported on primary night found about 80 election districts among the city’s 6,106 where Mr. Obama supposedly did not receive even one vote, including cases where he ran a respectable race in a nearby district.

City election officials this week said that their formal review of the results, which will not be completed for weeks, had confirmed some major discrepancies between the vote totals reported publicly — and unofficially — on primary night and the actual tally on hundreds of voting machines across the city.

In the Harlem district, for instance, where the primary night returns suggested a 141 to 0 sweep by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, the vote now stands at 261 to 136. In an even more heavily black district in Brooklyn — where the vote on primary night was recorded as 118 to 0 for Mrs. Clinton — she now barely leads, 118 to 116.

[JVS]

11. I thought people were trumpeting OH and TX as closed primaries?

What gives?

[Medusa]

12. But will the media get this and REPORT on the reasons WHY?

So far, not a word.

[Onlooker]

13. A lot of Republican women support Clinton

Both Clinton and Obama pull in some Republican support, so the result may not be surprising.

At any rate, I find it absurd to think that huge numbers of Republicans would engage in the devious politics advocated by Rush. Think about it. How many us would vote for a Republican in an attempt to sabotage their primary? Not many. I just don't think most people are into that kind of crap.

[VolcanoJen]

18. That's interesting.

Every Republican woman I know in Cincinnati hates Hillary with a truly irrational passion. It's frightening, the intensity of their hatred, seriously.

[boobooday]

15. The most striking thing to me -- Over and over again

In Ohio elections, there are problems for people who attempt to exercise their right to vote. Not enough ballots, not enough machines, yadda yadda. Every election is a sloppy, convoluted mess, with results that can always be interpreted as flawed, depending on how it worked out for your candidate. Even if the results are an accurate reflection of the public will, the process should be competently administered and beyond reproach.

This is the real outrage. Our elections should be transparent and straightforward and conducted with integrity.

[Red Knight]

16. Open primaries are just dumb

If you want to vote Democrat--register Democrat or vice-versa. It really does make little sense to register at all when you just vote wherever you want for whatever reason you want.

There is a reason we have two parties. Why not just vote in both primaries?

Maybe it's because I'm from a closed primary state but I just don't "get" the open primary thing.

[DiverDave]

20. God Damned repukes are behind this-bet on it

eom

[Eurobabe]

21. Hey Jen, what's your take?

I heard the Pukes were crossing over to give Clinton a victory in OH, because they want her as the nominee. Now this morning I notice a change in attitude in the MSM, they are pushing Clinton again, they must be laughing their asses off.

:puke: