Congress' investigative agency, responding to complaints from around the country, has begun to look into the Nov. 2 vote count, including the handling of provisional ballots and malfunctions of voting machines.
The presidential results won't change, but the studies could lead to changes.
In Youngstown, Ohio, voters who tried to cast ballots for Kerry on electronic machines saw their votes recorded for President Bush instead.
we all know there was cheating in ohio, a state that would swing the election around, just as there was in florida four years ago.
if they can't change the election results (because republicans at the state level will not cooperate, for obvious reasons), i sincerely hope they throw the cheating bastards in federal prison. regardless of their party affiliation.
Nearly a month after John Kerry conceded Ohio to President Bush, complaints and challenges about the balloting are mounting as activists including the Rev. Jesse Jackson demand closer scrutiny to ensure the votes are being counted on the up-and-up.
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Ohio essentially decided the outcome of the presidential race, with Kerry giving up after unofficial results showed Bush with a 136,000-vote lead in the state.
Since then, there have been demands for a recount and complaints about uncounted punch-card votes, disqualified provisional ballots and a ballot-machine error that gave hundreds of extra votes to Bush.
... and just because politicians cheat on a regular basis, doesn't mean that it should be dismissed as an accepted norm. gaoxiaen, your response sounds like that of someone who has been desensitized to the point of complacency.
Cheating is the norm. It is accepted by the majority, otherwise they wouldn't vote for any Republicrat. How often is it prosecuted? Who guards the guardians?
President Bush's victory over John Kerry in Ohio was closer than the unofficial election night totals showed, but the change is not enough to trigger an automatic recount, according to county-by-county results provided to The Associated Press on Friday.
Bush's margin of victory in the state that put him over the top in his re-election bid will be about 119,000 votes, which is smaller than the unofficial margin of 136,000, the county election board figures showed. That means Kerry drew closer by about 17,000 votes.
The margin shrank primarily because of the addition of provisional ballots that were not counted on Election Day and were not included in the unofficial tally. Overseas ballots also were added to the count in all 88 counties.
11-27-2004 11:17 PM
As if! 
