Posted on 11/02/2004 3:02:33 PM PST by Howlin
Iowa's numbers haven't been updated for awhile now:
Iowa race for President 2063 of 2079 precincts - 99 percent
George W. Bush (i) Rep 737,062 - 50 percent
John F. Kerry Dem 723,018 - 49 percent
An hour ago Bush was ahead with 103% of the vote in and a 30000 vote lead. Now he is less than 2000 and the precinct vote coming in at 99%, 4 percent less. Somebody needs to explain this as it has been all of the sites who have been reporting this discrepancy. Did Bill Richardson machine simply add in some phony ballots. Please don't tell me this is happening?
The update prior to the 103% they posted 101%
Voting or counting?
Do you mean COUNTING, I hope?
Bush up 14,044 (99%) at 2:33 cst.....heard someone said they had stopped voting tonight and will begin in the morning...
at 103%
Bush 281,113
Kerry 251,831
now, at 99%
Bush 322, 112
Kerry 318,486
Michael Beschloss, the presidential historian, has just lost his mind on national TV! He just said that Howard Dean should run in 2008, and would be a good candidate!
Sleep deprivation does terrible things to a presidential historian.
That's to be expected, they were saying that the 20K or so ballots from Columbus weren't added in yet earlier.
Sleep well....good night.
Didn't Bush just have a 30,000 vote cushion with like 98% of the vote in?
This is not just about OHIO, its also about NM and IOWA
Didn't the same thing happen in NM in 2000?
the RATS were trying to suppress the vote by demoralizing people. the drudge headline was...."KERRY COMFORTED BY EARLY RESULTS".......screw drudge
It's happening. Richardson is delivering his promise to the DNC.
He sure did nickity split like a bullfrog leaping off a burning log at a summer camp in the piny fresh woods of Maine.
No.
First time voters who couldn't show ID will vote provision and have the vote counted.
If the county election office made a mistake and a voter wasn't on the rolls in the precinct in which the provisional vote is cast, it will count.
If someone showed up to vote, filled out a provisional ballot and there is no record of them having been registered, that vote isn't counted.
If they showed up in the wrong precinct the vote isn't supoose to count.
One would have to assume county election offices made massive mistakes for thousands of provisional ballots to turn out to be legitimate.
But those ballots are now under the control of county boards so who knows.
Thanks for that one, I was starting to get that glazed over look here, but that one made me laugh!!
FYI; most of the non-reporting precincts in Iowa are rural and conservative (or very small). The local nets called it for Bush hours ago. I have NO idea what the hold-up is on this.
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