Ohio Machine Error Gives Bush Extra Votes

Don't we have just the most fucked up election system?

World class failure is more like it.This is just the tip of the iceberg folks
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Ohio Machine Error Gives Bush Extra Votes


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Nov 5, 7:34 PM (ET)

By JOHN McCARTHY

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's total should have been recorded as 365.

Bush won the state by more than 136,000 votes, according to unofficial results, and Kerry conceded the election on Wednesday after saying that 155,000 provisional ballots yet to be counted in Ohio would not change the result.

Deducting the erroneous Bush votes from his total could not change the election's outcome, and there were no signs of other errors in Ohio's electronic machines, said Carlo LoParo, spokesman for Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20041106/D8661OA80.html

Sounds to me like the thing did exactly what it was designed to do.

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