Posted on 11/05/2004 11:02:37 AM PST by finnman69
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.
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So Bush won by 141,000 instead of 145,000. Whooptie-freakin-do.
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.
The Secretary of State's Office said Friday it could not revise Bush's total until the county reported the error.
The Ohio glitch is among a handful of computer troubles that have emerged since Tuesday's elections.
In one North Carolina county, more than 4,500 votes were lost because officials mistakenly believed a computer that stored ballots electronically could hold more data than it did. And in San Francisco, a malfunction with custom voting software could delay efforts to declare the winners of four races for county supervisor.
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.
This is posted on Drudge as well. We will hear all sorts of crap frm the DU people on this. Thing is it doesn't make a difference, BUSH still won. However you can see them trying to make more out of it than it is!
I know, but you just KNOW what the lunatic BBV Diebold machine conspiracy kooks are going to say about this.
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Failure to register previously entered illegal 'Rat votes is now considered an "error"?
Good. It's tit for tat with the frontloading of the voting machines in PA.
Have they explained the extra 15,000 votes for Kerry in Lake County?
We're still short 10,000+
Okay, looks like a real mistake, can't be too careful. Good that it is being straightened out. Should be investigated vigorously. Now, lets have a look at the City of Cleveland and East Cleveland, shall we?
Oh goody. Here go the Left Wingnuts...
Let the conspiracies begin. Randi Rhodes was screaming the otehr day about some Ohio machine that had a glitch adding 25 million votes for Bush.
I hope that this is the county where the president of Diebold lives.
There are errors in every election and I'm sure there are places where Kerry got more votes than he should have too.
I love reports like this. They have zero impact on the outcome and at the same time send the collective blood pressure of the DUmmies through the roof.
Obviously, this is a sign of massive voter fraud. We need to do an intense study of voter fraud in America.
Starting with Cleveland.
moonbats....LMOA
Doogle
100% turnout in Westlake and Bay Village.
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