[gopwinsin04]

Keep your eyes peeled here..

[steplock]

81% ????!!!! That appears to be some back room hanky-panky going on redfining what is legal

I never heard of more than 20% of provisional ballots being approved.

[gmoore57]

Even if 100% of the provisional ballots go to Skerry, that still only comes out to 125823 votes. That's not enough to overturn the result.

[finnman69]

81% of 155,337 = 128,823< 136,000.

Even if Kerry won all (which he wont) it's not enough.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

This is all a waste of time. This election is over!!! End of story!!! GW Bush will end up with over 62,000,000 votes.

[Gustafm1000]

Let's say that Kerry wins 2/3 of the provisionals that survive (which is saying a lot, but whatever).

81% of 155K = around 126K. Kerry would net about 40K. Meaning Bush would be up by over 90K still...

It's over.

[Teslas Pigeon]

Does anyone know where the absentee ballots fit into all of this? Have they been counted yet?

[jveritas]

This 81% approval figure came from 11 rural counties where they have much less voters, much less provisional ballots and hence less likely to have bogus names and registrations.

In other counties like Lucas county (Toledo) there were around 6000 provisional ballots and over half of these were rejected (source Toledo Blade newspaper, search under provisional ballots on their website).

In Cuyahoga county (Cleveland area), the article that was posted yesterday on FR (search FR for Ohio+provisional ballots) said that out of 9000 provisional ballots counted so far, one third have been rejected. Total provisional ballots in Cuyahoga is 24733 the largest number in Ohio.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

The usurper's plans are to get close with the provisional ballots, then use the recount to further manipulate the results. Once they get the chance to "handle" the ballots, and knowing exactly how much they need, they can make their run to flip the election. They have done this before, and almost succeeded in FLA 2000. This could be their greatest gambit so far. This bears watching.