Posted on 11/15/2004 3:24:07 PM PST by Defendingliberty
Election officials say most of the presidential election provisional ballots rejected so far in Ohio came from people who aren’t registered to vote.
Most of Ohio’s 88 counties are continuing the process of verifying the 155,000 provisional ballots cast on Election Day and it looks as if most of those ballots will count.
Nancy Moore is deputy director of Belmont County Board of Elections where about 40 percent of the provisional ballots have been rejected.
She says the big factor is that board officials couldn’t find a valid registration, whether it was in Belmont County or some other county.
In Cuyahoga County, about three quarters of the rejected provisional ballots came from voters who aren’t registered.
And the Dems had planned the state to be the next Florida, hehehe.
Forty percent sounds too high for the state as a whole.
Is there any reason to believe provisional ballots will break disproportionately for one candidate or another? They haven't change the final count much in other states, have they?
LOL...the DUmmies have been donating money to the Green Party for a recount. Looks like a big waste of time and money!
I believe that 40% is low. Normally, it's more than 50% that are rejected - or at any rate, that's a figure I read in connection with Florida.
I'd love to see a vote tally for the disqualified ballots. My guess is they run 9:1 in Kerry's favor. Attempted fraud.
Yea, good to hear..I've been looking for this report all day!
I thaught there couldn't be a recount because the margin or % of victory was too great.
I want every single one counted; all of them, absentees, too.
I want them ALL.
And I wish there was a way to show that those rejected ballots were frauds!
The remaining ballots will probably split evenly and it will NOT be enough to help Kerry overcome Bush's lead. Even if Kerry won ALL the ballots left, it wouldn't do the job - and that is mathematically impossible. The election really ended the morning of November 3rd and Ed Bradley got it right the first time but Dan Rather kept trying to insist Kerry could somehow STILL pull through. With 40% of the ballots tossed out, there are no votes in Ohio the Democrats can make up.
There will be a recount. Under Ohio law, a recount can come about in one of two ways. First, if the margin is under 0.25%, a recount takes place automatically. Second, any candidate willing to pay $10 per precinct can request a recount. Once the party requests a recount, county boards are required to convene within ten days and begin counting the ballots.
See:
http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/procedures_recount_os.html#351503
Well, there are 90,000 spoiled ballots -- overvotes and undervotes. But most of those probably won't count, and those that do should break pretty evenly.
Im watching until that vote is certified by the Ohio Sec of State and the Electoral College ballots are cast!
I feel the same way........I don't trust them!
How in one paragraph say most of the PB's will count and then in the next say abot 40% rejected....is this 40% statewide?
Well, 60% is still "most" of the ballots.
The Greenies raised $150,000.00 from the Soros types to petition for the recount..gives the Dims 'plausible deniability'
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