Ohio tally may take weeks

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Ohio tally may take weeks


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Provisional ballots could decide race

By Carl Weiser
Enquirer Washingtion Bureau


WASHINGTON - If Tuesday's presidential election is close in Ohio, it could be mid-November or later before it's known for sure which candidate won the state - and maybe the presidency.

Under law, boards of elections cannot even begin counting "provisional" ballots until Nov. 13. Because that's a Saturday, many boards might wait until Nov. 15 to begin.

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We might know who the President is until December!!! If this get tight!!!

Hopefully the race will be long decided before that happens.

Let's wrap this up tomorrow, and no early morning surprises on Wednesday.

Now we really need a landslide.

Ya we don't want a close battle in Ohio we need a big Win!!!

Hope we don't have to though

sheeeesh
:eyes:

We didn't wait this long or work this hard to give up for ANYTHING.

:bounce:

Kerry MUST win in the landslide to prevent that...

With the court battles raging BEFORE election day, the problem with counting provisional, absentee, military and just plain old regular ballots, could Ohio evolve into this year's Floriduh? Seriously, something has got to be done with the way that elections are handled, in this day and age, when we can instantly communicate across this planet, and hell, to other planets! I mean, the astonauts can vote, if the Mars landers had fingers (I'm thinking they're smarter than a good chunk of the population here to begin with) they could vote instantly (or in about what.. 30 seconds? How far is Mars anywyay? ok.. 2,000,000,000 KM from earth, so.. oh, who knows. It's 2am.) and we are having problems like this counting votes?
How about if absentee ballots, provisional ballots etc were on Scan tron type cards? Or something. I just can't believe we are facing this sort of crap. I'm taking up drinking AND smoking. Heavily.

~Almost

Somebody pass the Pepto.

?

he has NJ, Florida, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota according to the latest polls. Am I missing something here??

Win kerry wins tonight his margin has to be big enough in ohio to not need provisional ballots.


But...is it possible for him to get enough ohio votes to put him over the number of provisional ballots?


lets hope so.

Nonsense! Bunkerbusters, MOABs, and noone to count chicken scratch on paper ballots. Where are our priorities?