No More e Voting Anywhere, Ever

Horsefeathers!

Time 10:48 p.m.

This just of the Cincy paper...

Report: Voting equipment
crashes in Clermont County
There is a report that voting equipment has crashed in Clermont County and that the remaining ballots will have to be counted by hand.

At 10:41 pm, Paul Hackett and Jean Schmidt were neck and neck in the vote count, with the Republican candidate slightly ahead. All results were in, except for Clermont County which was yet to report the tally from 91 precincts.

Time 10:49 p.m.

Early Voting Election Day Provisional Total Percentage
JEAN SCHMIDT 1158 16162 0 17320 58.09%
PAUL HACKETT 750 11689 0 12439 41.72%
Write In Votes 3 56 0 59 0.20%
Total Votes Cast 1911 27907 0 29818 100.00%

Clermont is back up.

Funny nobody saw this one comming or mentioned it earlier

here's news about the polling places being changed
CLEVELAND -- Fifteen polling places at Cleveland Municipal Schools were changed after the schools were “permanently or temporarily” closed this spring.

The new polling locations were posted at the old precincts, but the change made for some frustrated voters.

A Board of Elections spokeswoman says voter information postcards with new polling locations were mailed to affected voters last month.

I feel like quoting Billmon

A little refresher math on the Clermont County vote last year:

The ability of the Rovians to pull fresh GOP votes out of Hamilton and Clermont counties certainly challenged plausibility, and, in Clermont's case, almost defied mathematics.

Consider the fact that according to the Census Bureau, Clermont's population rose only 4.4% (about 7,800 souls) between 2000 and 2003, while reported GOP turnout increased by roughly 31% (about 14,600 votes) from 2000 to 2004. This in a county that only had about 122,000 registered voters last year, according to the Cincinatti Enquirer.

By now I think it should be obvious: The GOP machine's approach to voting in Ohio 2 is the same as its approach to the CAFTA vote on the floor of the House -- the count stays open until they get the result they want.

Well well well