OHIO: Plain Dealer - Odd vote results point to mix-ups at some precincts

Odd vote results point to mix-ups at some precincts

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Friday, December 10, 2004

Diane Solov and Diane Suchetka
Plain Dealer Reporters

The election results tabulated from the two precincts at Benedictine
High School seemed off-kilter from the start.

Had more than a third of the 1,000-plus voters at the East Side school
really embraced the ideals of Michael Peroutka, the candidate of the
Constitution Party, and Libertarian Party candidate Michael Badnarik?

Could 215 people have voted for Peroutka in a precinct that delivered
299 votes for John Kerry?

Did Badnarik win 164 votes to Kerry's 334 in the precinct that was in
the same room?

At more than a dozen Cuyahoga County precincts - primarily on
Cleveland's East Side - spikes in votes for the little-known third-
party contenders shot up a flare that something went awry on Election
Day.

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"Because most of the problems occurred in heavily Democratic Cleveland precincts, the errors seem to have cost votes for Kerry."

All the machine and voter "irregularities" benefit Bush. Who would have thunk?
:eyes:

From the article:

"But there are clear signs that, in some cases, poll workers erred in setting up the polling stations or misdirected voters. And voters, who often stood in long lines in cramped quarters, may have grabbed any open booth they could find, unaware there was a difference. In some cases, a combination of both factors conspired to produce bad votes."