Ohio Finds Possible Double Votes, Counts

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Ohio Finds Possible Double Votes, Counts

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UPDATED - Thursday November 18, 2004 12:49am

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Election officials in one Ohio county found that
about 2,600 ballots were double-counted, and two other counties have
discovered possible cases of people voting twice in the presidential
election.

Prosecutors were trying to determine Wednesday whether charges should
be filed against a couple in Madison County accused of voting twice.
In addition, Summit County election workers investigated possible
double votes found under 18 names.

In the other case, Sandusky County election officials discovered that
about 2,600 ballots from nine precincts were counted twice, likely
because of worker error, elections director Barb Tuckerman said.

Tuckerman believes the votes were counted twice when they were
mistakenly placed alongside a pile of uncounted ballots. The room
where the ballots were being fed into optical-scan machines on
election night was so crowded that ballots had to be placed on the
floor, Tuckerman said.