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Voter fraud in the Ukraine? Give me a break.
Juan Gonzalez - New York Daily News
30th November 2004
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It has been a month now and we still don't have a clear count of the votes for our own presidential race from the state
of Ohio.
For those who may have forgotten, Ohio supposedly assured George W. Bush a second term in the White House - only the
most important job on the planet.
The morning after the election, we were told Bush was ahead of John Kerry in that state's unofficial count by 139,000
votes, or 2.5%.
At the time there were 155,000 uncounted provisional ballots and an unknown number of overseas ballots, but Kerry
concluded they would not produce enough of a margin to erase his deficit, so he promptly conceded.
At the same time, given the bitter Democratic memories of the 2000 Florida fiasco, he assured his supporters he would
fight to have every vote properly counted this time.
Within a few days, other problems began to show up in Ohio's preliminary tally.
We learned, for example, that an additional 93,000 voters had gone to the polls yet machines had registered no
preference of theirs for President. Only a manual recount can tell us for sure what happened to those 93,000 ballots.
Then, red-faced election officials in Franklin County admitted a computer error on Election Night had tallied 4,258
votes for Bush in a precinct where only 638 people voted. That correction alone will drop Bush's margin by 3,620.
And now Daily News reporter Larry Cohler-Esses and I have uncovered some more unusual vote totals, this time in black
neighborhoods of Cleveland. Those results are from the precinct-by-precinct tallies released by the Cuyahoga County
Board of Elections, where Cleveland is located.
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