Posted on 12/28/2004 11:45:36 AM PST by freespirited
TOLEDO, Ohio -- Ohio's presidential recount is complete and the final outcome is unchanged: President George W. Bush won.
Democrat John Kerry did shave a few hundred votes off Bush's victory in the state. An Associated Press count of all 88 counties' unofficial totals shows Bush beating Kerry by 118,457 votes.
No one expected the recount to change the winner of the election, but supporters of the process said they wanted to make sure that every vote was counted.
Ohio and its 20 electoral votes tipped the race to Bush when Kerry conceded the morning after the vote. The state declared Bush the winner by 119,000 votes.
The DUmmies wont like this, rate it a 5
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041228/ap_on_re_us/ohio_vote
Ohhh no this is absolute proof of fraud because the recount didn't show the victory going to Kerry.
This is a Rovian plot and the MSM are in on it. . . .
Assuming that logic actually applies to these cases, maybe the whole reason certain folks (who shall remain nameless) think that Bush & Co. "stole" the election is that they are so used to "recount until you win" that when the recounts still have Bush winning, he must have cheated better than the 'rats doing the counting...
Best graphic ever.
How is this news? A few hundred votes out of a couple of million? How is that even statistically signficant?
If it's like Florida, then we should thank Kerry, Jesse, and Dems.
Florida went solid Red this year. Unbelievable as it may be, they didn't seem to like being painted as imbeciles that couldn't correctly punch a ballot while Dems tried to steal an election.
My guess is that Ohio folks are not enjoying Dems traversing their state calling into question their will ON their Dime. This may make Ohio a lock in 2004, if Taft is knocked out of office.
Remember, the Suicide Hotline number is 1-800-BUSH-WON!
Oh where is that FR "I believe" thread. ;)
correction: 2008
Has Howard Wolffson given CNN, ABC and CBS permission to call Ohio for Bush yet?
Wouldn't you think that the libs would get sick and tired of hearing "Bush still wins"..for God sake, are they gluttons for punishment. Talk about looking like complete fools every single time.
Not yet ... they are still hoping that Congress will block this election on Jan 6th
Karl Rove failed us again. Bush was supposed to gain 10,000 votes in the recount, this scenario shouldn't be possible, I mean with Kenneth Blackwell being in the hip pocket of Bushco and what not. .. .
By JOHN SEEWER, Associated Press Writer
TOLEDO, Ohio - Election officials finished the presidential recount in Ohio on Tuesday, with the final tally shaving about 300 votes off President Bush (news - web sites)'s six-figure margin of victory in the state that gave him a second term.
The recount shows Bush winning Ohio by 118,457 votes over John Kerry (news - web sites), according to unofficial results provided to The Associated Press by the 88 counties. Lucas County, home to Toledo, was the last to finish counting.
The state had earlier declared Bush the winner by 118,775 votes and plans to adjust its totals to reflect the recount later this week.
The Kerry campaign supported the recount, but said it did not expect the tally to change the election winner. Supporters of the recount, requested by two minor party candidates, said they wanted to make sure every valid vote was counted.
Ohio and its 20 electoral votes tipped the race to Bush when Kerry conceded the morning after the vote.
Kerry gained 734 more votes in the recount, and Bush picked up 449, mostly from disqualified ballots that were counted in the second tally because hanging chads had come loose when ballots were handled again or rerun through counting machines.
That put Kerry 285 votes closer to Bush. The president's victory margin declined by about three dozen more votes when some counties adjusted their certified vote totals.
The Green and Libertarian party presidential candidates asked for the recount and raised the $113,600 required under state law for the process.
Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell has estimated that the recount will end up costing taxpayers $1.5 million.
Witnesses who watched workers count ballots by hand and machine said the effort provided assurance that boards were accurately counting ballots.
The completion of the recount will not bring an end to questions surrounding the vote in Ohio.
A group of voters citing fraud have challenged the election results with the Ohio Supreme Court. The voters, supported by the Rev. Jesse Jackson (news - web sites), have cited irregularities including long lines, a shortage of voting machines in minority precincts and problems with computer equipment.
Attorney General Jim Petro has called the challenge frivolous and argued that the state Supreme Court does not have jurisdiction over a federal election.
The Government Accountability Office, an arm of Congress, also is investigating election problems.
You read my mind. The reason: It would show the 'actual' electorate count and the popular vote WAS a landslide and most of all - expose the RATS for the frauds they really are!!!!!
As we saw in Seattle, they'll keep on counting anyway, till they get the count they like.
The recount until you win philosophy worked for the Dems in Washington. They did not count all the votes. They just did 3 recounts that favored Rossi, then they ordered a selective hand recount of heavily Dem King County, and when their candidate was ahead, they declared that the counting was over--no need to recount the GOP counties.
I hear rumors though that the joke may be on them. Rossi is toying with the idea of unseating the Dem Senator who is up for re-election in 2006.
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But... Wait.. If you take the vote, multiply it by six, then divide it by the number of "Disenfranchised" and multiply that result by the cycle of the moon on election day, Kerry Clearly won! Don't any of you see that ?
[/tin foil mode]
Paging Keith Olbermann ... Keith Olbermann
Before we all get too excited I'm actually quite worried. Isn't this about the 10th time Bush won the Presidency? Sooner or later the Moonbats are going to give up on trying count the 2000 and 2004 results and switch gears to claim that Bush is in violation of the 24th Amendment!!!!!!!!
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