Ohio Race Just Got Even Closer as Hundreds of Uncounted Votes Discovered

townhall.com ^ | Posted: Aug 09, 2018 8:30 AM | Leah Barkoukis

[Red Badger]

Election officials in Ohio found 588 uncounted votes Wednesday in a suburb of Columbus, county officials said.

After counting the ballots, Republican Troy Balderson received 198 votes; Democrat Danny O’Connor got 388 votes; and Joe Manchik, 2 votes. Thus, O’Connor gained 190 on Balderson, who currently leads by 1,564 votes in the close race.

“The votes from a portion of one voting location had not been processed into the tabulation system,” officials explained. “Election night results are tabulated through the use of a device called a master PEB that is returned to the Board along with flash drives from each machine. The Griswold Center voting location had two master PEB’s, only one of which was read and processed into the tabulation system on Election Night. The additional votes identified during this preliminary audit will be reflected in the final official results certified by the Board of Elections on August 24th.”

While Balderson declared victory Tuesday night, O’Connor said in a tweet celebrating Wednesday's discovery that he is holding out for all votes to be counted.

?? 6:05 PM UPDATE ??

We just netted 190 VOTES from Franklin County!

We're confident DANNY WILL WIN once ALL the votes are counted, but we spent EVERYTHING we had on the Special Election.

Please donate $5 to make sure EVERY LAST VOTE is counted fairly.https://t.co/c4xUZd1ngr — Danny O'Connor (@dannyoconnor1) August 8, 2018

According to the Cincinnati Enquirer, 3,435 provisional ballots and 5,048 absentee ballots will be counted by the August 24 deadline.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Is the Secretary of State a Republican or Democrat?
That is what will determine the outcome.

[rjsimmon]

There certainly are a significant amount of incompetent people handling these elections.

And they keep coming back, election after election.

[READINABLUESTATE]

Hundreds of Uncounted Votes Discovered...in the trunk of an Oldsmobile.

[pepsi_junkie]

Here’s hoping this time they were being watched.

Kasich's the guy who's watching. He had called a press conference for the day after the election so he could talk about what a disaster Trump had been and then had to cancel because ... oops! Trump won. And in this case he's gone on record that this guy winning is bad because he hates Trump. He'd 100% love to say "the guy should have won my a million votes but he lost because of Trump!"

Doesn't make me confident that an honest vote count will play out.

[laweeks]

Was Al Franken seen in the parking lot with the trunk of his car’s hood up? I’m sure he’s got more ballots for them to fill out.

[Fido969]

[Liz]

Election officials in Ohio found 588 uncounted votes Wednesday in a suburb of Columbus, county officials said. “The votes from a portion of one voting location had not been processed into the tabulation system,” officials explained. “Election night results are tabulated through the use of a device called a master PEB that is returned to the Board along with flash drives from each machine. The Griswold Center voting location had two master PEB’s, only one of which was read and processed into the tabulation system on Election Night. The additional votes identified during this preliminary audit will be reflected in the final official results certified by the Board of Elections on August 24th.”

You dont say......a tech failure, eh?

Better call Obama.

Tech masterminds of the universe united.

[Ancient Man]

In 1948, LBJ cheated his way to overcome a 20,000 vote deficit and won by 87-votes. Thus his Senate nickname “Landslide Lyndon.”

[E. Pluribus Unum]

In the trunk of a Buick, no doubt.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The consent decree has been vacated. Time to actually fight back.

[TheRightGuy]

i can feel my chad dangling even as we speak

[cnsmom]

This may start to backfire. Dems May realize they don’t need to drag themselves to the polls and wait in line because the DNC can manufacture votes on their own. Future elections will tell.

[o-n-money]

like something that happened to propel Lyndon Baines Johnson into the US Senate.
_______________________________________________________
Now known as “The Franken Method”.

[Dr. Sivana]

They NEVER FIND Republican ballots in huge numbers..........ODD..

It happened .. once! Waukesha in WI held back 14,000 votes in an important judicial election (swing vote), and it made the difference. This was during the Scott Walker recall vote run-off, so the environment was white hot. Boy, were the Dems furious! The lefty judge, JoAnne Kloppenberg, was related to Communist Party perenniel Joelle Fishman.

[mistfree]

Election night results are tabulated through the use of a device called a master PEB that is returned to the Board along with flash drives from each machine. The Griswold Center voting location had two master PEB’s, only one of which was read and processed into the tabulation system on Election Night.

What was the ratio from the other PEB?

[LIConFem]

My guess is, they'll continue to "find" votes for Danny until he wins by a recount-proof margin.

[Seaplaner]

Well, now that Stalin will be counting the votes...

[butlerweave]

If 10% more Republicans showed up to vote it would be over

[chris37]

It’s kinda funny how found votes always favor Demonrats.

[PGR88]

Yep, gotta find those pre-filled ballots in car trunks and church basements.

Corrupt, corrupt, corrupt - are the rules that govern our voting system

Some major changes need to be made:

- ID needed for voting
- registration closed 2 weeks before election
- election rolls purged every 10 years.
- you must show up at polling place to vote
- paper or mechanical ballots only
- no absentee ballots, except very limited for active-duty military.