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Article: Alastair Thompson
Date: Wednesday, 3 November 2004
Time: 6:21 pm NZT
NEWSFLASH: Dirty Tricks In Ohio & More
A SERIES OF SNAPSHOTS FROM ACROSS THE NET CONCERNING THE RACE
IN OHIO. INCLUDED IN THE NARRATIVE ARE:
- A REPUBLICAN EFFORT TO SHUT DOWN THE VOTE IN OHIO;
- 1 MILLION UNCOUNTED ABSENTEE BALLOTS IN FLORIDA;
- SOME STRANGE RESULTS IN A DIEBOLD OHIO COUNTY.
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From Democratic Underground
Some posters are pointing to an abnormal 4600 votes to Green
Party David Cobb in Lucas County as possible evidence of possible
electronic voting fraud.
See. Ohio's Official Results Page:
http://election.sos.state.oh.us/results/RaceDetail.aspx?race=PP
Note: Lucas County uses Diebold vote counting equipment
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From Josh Marshall's Talkingpontsmemo.com
(November 02, 2004 -- 11:01 PM EST)
Now hearing very conflicting word about the legal situation on
the ground in Ohio. Will report when we know more.
-- Josh Marshall
(November 02, 2004 -- 10:40 PM EST)
Why no more network coverage of the flurry of lawsuits across
Ohio? This is what the election is coming down to. And it's not
being reported. Interviews with party chairs, no coverage of
where the election is being decided.
-- Josh Marshall
(November 02, 2004 -- 10:31 PM EST)
Across the board the story is the same in Ohio, a lawsuit strategy
from Republicans is causing delays and shutdowns in precincts
that remained open to allow people who were already in line to
vote. Lawsuits create delays; folks leave.
-- Josh Marshall
(November 02, 2004 -- 09:52 PM EST)
What we're hearing is that Florida is too close to call. In Ohio,
the GOP is pulling out all the stops, frankly, to steal it in
the courts, trying to get courts to stop voting for people who
were already in line when the polls closed, ruling against provisional
ballots, the whole nine yards. It's wall to wall ugly.
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From Daily Kos
Ohio is not out of contention, not as long as the urban areas
(like Cuyahoga county) fail to report in. My brother, who has
been crunching numbers all night (he likes math), makes a persuassive
case that Bush will have a 20K lead in Ohio without absentees
after all urban precincts report. The absentees would decide
the race.
Florida won't be called tonight, not without so many absentee
ballots outstanding (1 million). I don't feel good about Florida,
but those absentees are mostly from Dem areas according to MSNBC.
It's not over.
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From Kevin Drum
LAWYERS CONVERGING ON OHIO....It sounds like Ohio is about to
become ground zero for the legal profession of America. I think
we're about to find out how many lawyers can dance on the head
of a ballot marker.
(continuing)
