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As featured on p. 218 of "Bloggers on the Bus," under the name "a MyDD blogger."

Friday, November 05, 2004

Fraud

I'm sure this is an isolated incident:

COLUMBUS, Ohio - An error with an electronic voting system gave President Bush (news - web sites) 3,893 extra votes in suburban Columbus, elections officials said.

Franklin County's unofficial results had Bush receiving 4,258 votes to Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites)'s 260 votes in a precinct in Gahanna. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct. Bush's total should have been recorded as 365.

Bush won the state by more than 136,000 votes, according to unofficial results, and Kerry conceded the election on Wednesday after saying that 155,000 provisional ballots yet to be counted in Ohio would not change the result.


This is THE issue for the next year, in my opinion. We cannot let this go down the memory hole. I'm mulling over possibilities, but setting up a "Citizens for Fair Elections" PAC is vital. Before we strategize how to win elections, we have to make sure there are elections we can trust.

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