Posted on 02/12/2005 11:34:56 PM PST by ambrose
Franklin County pinpoints cause of inflated Bush numbers
COLUMBUS, Ohio The Illinois company that manufactured election machines for Franklin County in Ohio has identified the error that made a laptop computer give thousands of extra votes to President Bush.
The mistake was caught several days after the election. It had Bush receiving four-thousand-258 votes in a precinct in the Columbus suburb of Gahanna where only 638 voters cast ballots. The corrected official count showed 365 votes for Bush.
The director of the Franklin County elections board says a review showed no fraud or tampering.
Gurnee-based voting machine manufacturer -- Danaher Controls -- has inspected the counting system and concluded the laptop was busy completing another task just as numbers from that precinct were being fed into it.
It wasn't Diebold.
Why bother - the Democrat koolaid crowd won't believe a word of it. They KNOW it was a Bush-Rove-Diebald conspiracy.
It was all the fault of Blackwell and Bush. The Franklin County Republican Party probably exhumed Jim Rhodes out of his grave to use his magic powers to win one for Bush. (sarcasm alert)
That raises more questions than it answers.
Not to have a comprehensive paper trail is stuuuuuuuuuuupid.
Rovian telepathic mind meld made the 'puter do it.
With 365 votes in a 638 voter precinct that means that Bush still won by a lot....Kerry got 273, nearly a hundred less with the president carry 58% of that precinct.
Wonder if that will get reported?
"It had Bush receiving four-thousand-258 votes in a precinct in the Columbus suburb of Gahanna where only 638 voters cast ballots."
Sounds like King County Washington.
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