Sorry to waste a diary on this but I'm looking for some Ohio clarification.
I get my Ohio news from the excellent
Ohio Voter Suppression News site. According to the authors, Cuyahoga County has come in. They report:
According to elections officials, 16,058 out of 25,309 provisional ballots were accepted. The results are Bush +5,982, Kerry + 15,224. Note, the number of provisionals received is slightly higher than that used by the Plain Dealer (25,309 versus 25,302).
with a link to this article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer on challenges to the provisional count.
Also, the Cuyahoga reject rate is officially about 67%, but it hasn't altered the total % for Ohio as reported today at 78% (which is where it was yesterday.)
The result moves Kerry into the lead in the provisional count by about 52,000-47,000 with roughly 30,000 ballots left to count and seven of Kerry's counties still to come in, including Franlin, Lucas and Summit.
So why the discrepency between the provisionals counted and high rejection rate (the rejection rate would imply that only 16 of those 21 thousand are provisional ballots.) Is it a concentration of overseas ballots in Cuyahoga? For some reason, I can't link to any of the site's authors' emails. Anyone on one of the Ohio email lists know the story?