[HaveHadEnough]

I have no doubt that the people of Columbus, Ohio believe that the football game is the most important thing around. I suppose I am asking people to pat their heads and rub their stomachs at the same time.

[untrained skeptic]

Verifying or invalidating 9000 provisional ballots is likely to be a very time consuming task, and will likely require the help of a lot of volunteers, which are a lot harder to come by during the celebration that surrounds the OSU-Micigan game.

However, you might get people interested in getting this done quickly if there were much of a chance that the provisional ballots would change the result.

Pryce has a 3536 vote lead before these provisional ballots are validated and counted. If they are all valid, her opponent would need over 2/3 of them to go their way.

However if only 80% are valid, which is about average when I looked at 2004 numbers, there would be 7200 votes not yet counted.

Her opponent would need approximately 75% of the provisional ballots to go his way.

Considering how unlikely that is, I don't see a lot of urgency.

They can things organized, line up their volunteers, and hammer out the ground rules for those who want to observe the process, and then get started with going through the provisional ballots on the 18th.