Posted on 12/06/2004 11:03:07 PM PST by El Oviedo
COLUMBUS, Ohio - This battleground state on Monday certified President Bush (news - web sites)'s 119,000-vote victory over John Kerry (news - web sites), even as the Kerry campaign and third-party candidates prepared to demand a statewide recount.
The president won Ohio with 2.86 million votes, or 51 percent, to Kerry's 2.74 million votes, or 49 percent.
The 118,775-vote lead was closer than the unofficial election night margin of 136,000, but not enough to trigger a mandatory recount. Absentee ballots and provisional votes counted after election night made most of the difference.
"This was an election where you have some glitches but none of these glitches were of a conspiratorial nature and none of them would overturn or change the election results," said Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, a Republican who, as the state's chief election official, certified the results.
The presidential election hung on Ohio, prized for its 20 electoral votes. Not until the morning after the election did Kerry finally concede — realizing there were not enough provisional ballots to erase Bush's lead.
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Probably, "Representative government sucks!"
They've always thought that, because when you rip a liberal's mask off, you'll always find a communist.
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