Franklin County, Ohio Kerry gains 7,171 (AP)

[59millionmorons]

http://www.newarkadvocate.com/news/stories/20041202/localnews/1685424.html


In Franklin County, which includes Columbus, 12,125 of 14,462 provisional ballots, or 84 percent, were declared valid.

Matthew Damschroder, director of the Franklin County Board of Elections, said Kerry had 54 percent of the total vote, or 285,500 to 237,252 for Bush. Kerry's lead in the county widened by 7,171 votes from the unofficial results, largely because a computer glitch on election night recorded an extra 3,893 votes for Bush in one precinct.

Disks from that precinct, in the Columbus suburb of Gahanna, all had the correct total and workers have been unable to reproduce the error, Damschroder said.

The rest of the change was due to a Kerry advantage in overseas absentee ballots and provisional votes, he said.

[bluestateguy]

1. Hmmm....

The rest of the change was due to a Kerry advantage in overseas absentee ballots and provisional votes, he said.

Could it be that Kerry won most of the overseas military votes?

[eleny]

4. That perked my ears up, too

The military vote!

[59millionmorons]

5. scratching head

How does this compare with other states military votes?

[xultar]

2. Kerry gain was in overseas absentee ballots and provisional votes

I rest my case.

[shuffnew]

12. not surprising- those fighting pre-emptive war&disenfranchised voters n/t

[bullimiami]

3. note this though

quote ""Disks from that precinct, in the Columbus suburb of Gahanna, all had the correct total and workers have been unable to reproduce the error, Damschroder said. ""


How about that.
Does this mean tabulator error?

[tridim]

7. Sounds like it..

IMO this is proof that a hand recount must happen NOW.

We also need to demand to see the source code for the tabulation software. No excuses.

[LisaL]

13. You can not hand recount Franklin county.

It used paperless electronic voting machines.

[KoKo]

8. Impound the disks and have a team of computer hackers fine comb

them. That's real evidence that the disk has the info as to what happened.

[shuffnew]

11. more likely "tabulator hacking".... (n/t)

[Demit]

6. That's weird. Subtract the 3893 glitch from the 7171 total Kerry gain

in Franklin County--and that means Kerry only picked up 3278 votes of 12,125 valid provisional ballots cast. That's just weird.

[lizzieforkerry]

9. No that is how many extra votes Kerry got over Bush

They both must have gotten 6000 of the reamining 12,000

[LisaL]

15. No, Kerry got 3278 more than Bush did.

[Supersedeas]

10. an computer glitch recorded almost 4K in one precinct and NO MEDIA will

cover this sh*t. Public trust, my @$$.

[Nadeaufan17]

16. This was covered

This was covered by almost all media. It was in the papers, on cable news networks, ext. It is very very old news.

[RunningFromCongress]

14. HAHA I like how it was LARGELY b/c of a computer glitch when 50% of

the new lead was from better counting...