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8,099 of Cuyahoga County's (Cleveland) 24,472 provisional ballots ruled invalid
The Cleveland Plain Dealer ^ | November 23, 2004 | Diane Solov

Posted on 11/23/2004 5:09:41 AM PST by oberon01610

"The Cuyahoga County Board of Elections voted Monday to reject one out of three of the 24,472 provisional ballots cast in the Nov. 2 election.

The bulk of the 8,099 invalidated ballots were determined to have been cast by nonregistered voters or registered voters who cast their ballots in the wrong precinct. Voters received provisional ballots at the polls on Election Day if their names did not appear on the voter rolls...

As county elections workers stood watch over a hand truck bearing 10 boxes stuffed with invalidated ballots, an ensemble of lawyers, professors and others who were active in voter registration drives made it clear that the board's decision won't quell the lingering disquiet about the possibility that some legitimate votes won't be counted...

"I find it inconceivable that over 5,000 voters in the county would wait an hour in the pouring rain to vote if they haven't registered," said Dr. Norm Robbins, a neurosciences professor at Case Western Reserve University who volunteered for the Greater Cleveland Voter Registration Coalition."

(Excerpt) Read more at cleveland.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: bush; county; cuyahoga; election; ohio; provisional; w
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To: oberon01610

Really, I had to go to three different places before I could vote because my polling place had been changed and I had not been notified. Not Fraud, just poor communication by the Clerk's office and by me for NOT CHECKING BEFORE I went to vote. But I got to vote and that's what counts.


41 posted on 11/23/2004 6:11:43 AM PST by jcwky
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To: fortheDeclaration

what it means is a nationwide campaign for walk-in registration on voting day, er, should I say re-registration to spread the joy of one's voting to as many districts as possible. Coming from the DNC to your focus group Real Soon Now.


42 posted on 11/23/2004 6:18:30 AM PST by epluribus_2
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To: oberon01610
"I find it inconceivable that over 5,000 voters in the county would wait an hour in the pouring rain to vote if they haven't registered,"

You have got to be kidding me.

I know of several people who, when I asked if they were going to vote, after they said yes, I asked them "are you registered"?

I got a look as if I had three heads.

"You mean I can't just show up and vote"

43 posted on 11/23/2004 6:19:15 AM PST by Popman (Democrat Party Political Values are Condescension, Hypocrisy, Bigotry)
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To: oberon01610
There was a previous thread that had data that 44 of Ohio's 88 counties had reported and after the provisional and everything if Kerry got every ballot from the rest of the counties (including Cuyahoga) then he would still fall short by about 18,000 votes. When you add these 8,099 to that the best that Kerry could is end up 26,000 votes short.

Actually, its even better than that. 8,099 votes for Bush also means 8,099 ballots that were not Kerry votes. That's puts Kerry an additional 16,198 votes short, so his best possible lost is 34,198.

Obviously, reality is going to be much worse for him. He'll lose by well over 100,000 votes.

44 posted on 11/23/2004 6:24:43 AM PST by XJarhead
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To: nikos1121
Id be interested to know how many of the 8,099 provisional ballots were Kerry votes? Any guesses out there?

I don't think that they are even allowed to open the envelope to count it if it is determined to be invalid. All the info needed to determine validity is on the outside.

45 posted on 11/23/2004 6:43:47 AM PST by KarlInOhio (In a just world, Arafat would have died at the end of a rope.)
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To: Recon Dad

They must have been hurricane refugees.


46 posted on 11/23/2004 6:44:01 AM PST by xp38
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To: buffyt

You are quite correct. People seem to forget the brouhaha that went on prior to the election about that subject. The Dems were trying to get votes counted from voters who did not vote in their proper precincts.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/23/ohio.ballots.ap/


47 posted on 11/23/2004 6:56:08 AM PST by kabar
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To: fortheDeclaration
We stole it fair and square and we ain't givin it back.

VRWC
Resistance Is Futile

48 posted on 11/23/2004 7:00:27 AM PST by Kozak (Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
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To: oberon01610
"I find it inconceivable that over 5,000 voters in the county would wait an hour in the pouring rain to vote if they haven't registered," said Dr. Norm Robbins, a neurosciences professor at Case Western Reserve University who volunteered for the Greater Cleveland Voter Registration Coalition."

Why am I visualizing Wallace Shawn in The Princess Bride: "INCONCEIVABLE"

49 posted on 11/23/2004 7:00:57 AM PST by writmeister
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To: oberon01610

Bwahahahaha.


50 posted on 11/23/2004 7:03:43 AM PST by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: Motherbear
"I find it inconceivable that over 5,000 voters in the county would wait an hour in the pouring rain to vote if they haven't registered,"

Amazing what democrats will give to get voters to wait that long and vote, free meals, free cigarettes, crack cocaine....

51 posted on 11/23/2004 7:28:45 AM PST by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: writmeister

Why doesn't this "professor" actually research the data: actuall;y find out what levels of fraud and corruption are in HIS democratic machine in the inner city?

The democratic herd (their typical voter) has no brain, no mind, and no initiaive: They are told to go somewhere do something.

And that's all they know.

BUT - their bosses - the criminals running (ruining) the inner cities on behalf of the democrat party DO KNOW and still get away with it under their clothes of "racism" and "hatred" .......


52 posted on 11/24/2004 8:57:58 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Kerry's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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