[swampfox]

What I understood Cahill to be saying (via Cameron on FNC) was not that there were 250,000 provisional ballots; the OH sec-of-state earlier said there were something like 130,000 of those. Rather, Cahill was saying that the remaining 8-10% of the precincts not yet in constituted 250,000 votes, and that they believe those votes will break heavily for Kerry, and thus make up the difference. So it's not (yet) an attempt at fraud, or lying about provisional ballots; it's just a desperate attempt to hold off the inevitable until it is ex post facto.

[ican'tbelieveit]

You must have heard a later comment. They clearly said 250,000 provisional ballots. It has been parroted since by the commentators.