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  •  nice catch (none / 0)

    obviously an error.  Not sure that it appears in any other precincts though.

    by seamus on Thu Nov 04, 2004 at 10:28:39 AM PDT

    •  hmmmm... (none / 1)

      look....i WANT to believe that election was stolen, but i need proof.

      this was the 1st catch -- but it accounts for 4000 votes.

      i'm sure the kerry group had access to these #'s & the lawyers were looking for any angle -- their lawyers after all.

      so, if we could get a # of these 4000 votes together to add up to a Kerry win FROM INDEPENDENT & PROBABLY GOVERNMENT SOURCES then we better do it quick.

      otherwise, it's over.

      either way, i do hope they continue to count the votes & fight for every vote -- we deserve no less.

      Texas Kaos Take Back Texas

      Bush, What Price Did You Pay?

      by krazypuppy on Thu Nov 04, 2004 at 10:41:32 AM PDT

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      •  yes (none / 0)

        4,000 isn't enough.  But remember, there are some 250,000 uncounted ballots in Ohio.  We expect those to lean towards Kerry so the real gap isn't 140,000.  IN any case, it is now 4,000 votes closer unless there is some other explanation for this.

        I wouldn't assume that Kerry's guys caught this.  There are a lot of numbers to crunch and they weren't the only ones looking at these but this is the first we've seen these.

        by seamus on Thu Nov 04, 2004 at 10:51:46 AM PDT

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      •  I would not assume (none / 0)

        anything about what the Kerry campaign might have looked into. I think they saw 140k votes against them and decided to give up

        by fabacube on Thu Nov 04, 2004 at 11:02:57 AM PDT

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    •  obviously an error.....but not isolated (none / 0)

      I'm busy playing catchup today, so I don't know if I have time to pore over all 144 pages of the .pdf, but the error in Gahanna 1-B is not
      "just a typo"; notice that the total in 1B is rolled  up in the total for all of Gahanna.  If these prelims are part of the total being reported for Franklin Co. to the SecState and the AP, there's about 4K of Bush's lead gone.  THIS REALLY COULD BE BIG, if it's not an isolated case, at the statewide level.  Greg Palast thinks Diebold did it http://www.tompaine.com/articles/kerry_won_.php
      but that may be harder to prove.  Go Bev Harris in your efforts to try to prove Greg's hypothesis!  Still, any chance of fixing the possible miscall of Ohio is dependent, not on Kerry (alas) or the DNC "leadership", but on grassroots efforts by people like us!  If any Buckeye Kossacks know the local ropes, can you get people on the ground poring over stuff like this pronto, so it can be brought to light?!?!?!?!
      PLEASE!  The world is begging us not to give up.  We run a B&B in Wash.  State, and just got an e-mail from guests from Switzerland who stayed with us in July, called "Switzerland in Grief".  

      "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." --Thomas Jefferson

      by penncove on Thu Nov 04, 2004 at 11:28:27 AM PDT

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