I don't know if anyone else has picked up on this, but this is from
The Plain Dealer (Cleveland). In keeping with Ohio's propensity for flawed, suspicious elections, there are reports of missing e-voting cards and optical scan devices yielding inaccuracies. Link below...
Link:
http://www.cleveland.com/...
Cuyahoga County election workers continued to count votes Wednesday, with about 85 percent of the votes cast on the touch-screen machines counted by 11:15 a.m. But 70 memory cards - with results from 200 precincts - were missing. Cuyahoga County board of elections officials are checking the voting machines to see if the cards were inadvertantly left inside.
Meanwhile, a second team of 50 temporary agency employees continued the hand count of 17,000 paper ballots used by absentee voters. Election officials decided to hand count the paper ballots after tests on the optical scan machines showed innaccuracies. Vote totals for the absentee ballots are expected sometime this evening.
If there were no pattern of abnormalities in my beloved home state, I might not be suspicious. If I hadn't been blocked from voting in 2004 because I sent in my absentee request on "the wrong weight of paper," I might not be suspicious. If my sister who lives in a Democratic district hadn't waited in line for three hours in the rain in 2004, while my other sister who lives in a Republican district voted in less than five minutes - I might not be suspicious. If my sister in the Republican district hadn't pressed "Kerry" and been asked to confirm her "Bush" vote, I might not be suspicious. If Ken Blackwell were nowhere near this election - I might not be suspicious.
But since all those things happened... I hope I won't be asked to model a tin-foil hat for being just a bit suspicious.