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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...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - An error with an electronic voting system gave President Bush 3,893 extra votes in suburban Columbus, elections officials said. Franklin County's unofficial results had Bush receiving 4,258 votes to Democrat John Kerry's 260 votes in a precinct in Gahanna. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct. Bush actually received 365 votes in the precinct, Matthew Damschroder, director of the Franklin County Board of Elections, told The Columbus Dispatch. State and county election officials did not immediately respond to requests by The Associated Press for more details about the voting system and its vendor,...

Posted on Fri, Nov. 05, 2004 Computer error at voting machine gives Bush 3,893 extra votes Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio - A computer error with a voting machine cartridge gave President Bush 3,893 extra votes in a Gahanna precinct. Franklin County's unofficial results gave Bush 4,258 votes to Democratic challenger John Kerry's 260 votes in Precinct 1B. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct. Matthew Damschroder, director of the Franklin County Board of Elections, said Bush received 365 votes there. The other 13 voters who cast ballots either voted for other candidates or did not vote for...

Police Hunting Down Lion Printer Friendly Version   Gahanna police spent the morning on the prowl and poised for a fight, just in case they ran into a lion on the loose.There are three confirmed sightings of the lion, but police say she never surfaced Tuesday.The first sighting came from a Columbus police officer around 8 p.m.; he saw the lion crossing Taylor Road near Taylor Station Road.The second came from a courier, who saw her off Technology Drive.The last confirmed visual was from some CSX workers who spotted the lion on the railroad tracks heading toward the airport.One eyewitness...