“Committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President”.
Oh, jeez — it looks the first major vote-tallying computer error has come out of Ohio,
to the tune of nearly 4,000 votes accidentally awarded to Bush in one
voting precinct alone. Given that the current difference between Bush
and Kerry in the state is 136,483 votes, and there are hundreds
of voting precincts in Ohio, all it would take is 34 more errors like
this and we'd have a new President. Of course, I also ask myself: why
is this story currently only running on the local newspaper websites?
It's a pretty sobering indictment of our electoral process, at least
when it comes to the few days after a close election. [Q Daily News]