Posted on 11/04/2012 8:23:11 PM PST by Steelfish
NOVEMBER 4, 2012 As Ohio Counts, So Waits the Nation A Bloody Recount Battle May Be In Store This Election. By John Fund
Cincinnati, Ohio — If the presidential election goes into “overtime” — if no winner is known on Wednesday morning after the election — the culprits may be procrastinating absentee voters in Ohio. If it goes on beyond that with no decision, it may be due to lawyers from both parties’ fighting trench warfare over individual ballots in a bloody recount. It could easily happen in other states, but the danger of an “overtime” election is perhaps greatest in Ohio.
This year for the first time, Ohio officials mailed every registered voter in the state an application for an absentee ballot. A total of 1.3 million applications flooded in, and to date some 1.1 million, or 85 percent, have been returned. But many of the rest won’t be mailed before the election. So what if the voters who failed to send in their absentee ballots show up at their polling places on Tuesday asking to vote?
They will be allowed to, but only by provisional ballot in order to make sure they don’t vote twice.
Other people will have to cast provisional ballots — those who have changed their names or moved but not sent in a change of address, or those who have registered just prior to the deadline this year but whose names don’t show up on local precinct lists. There will also be people trying to vote who aren’t eligible — because they didn’t register in time or don’t have even a non-photo form of ID. By law, none of those provisional ballots can be opened and counted for ten days — until November 17.
Voters have those ten days to contact....
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No offense to Ohio but here in PA., we have 20 votes. I think that there will be such a majority, this won’t matter. And records, like the one that says no president ever won without Ohio, were meant to be broken. Whither the pundits, I say!
Planned mayhem by democrats. G-d is keeping score @sshats!
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