By Brad Friedman on 11/17/2004, 11:31pm PT  

AP is reporting tonight that some 2,600 ballots in Sandusky County, OH were double-counted on Election Night. Once again, the error occurred in a strong Bush county where the ersatz "President" won 56% of the vote (if my bad math is correct, totals from the Ohio website are Bush: 17,824 Kerry: 13,909 in that county.)

According to the AP story:

2,600 ballots from nine precincts were counted twice, likely because of worker error, elections director Barb Tuckerman said.

Tuckerman believes the votes were counted twice when they were mistakenly placed alongside a pile of uncounted ballots. The room where the ballots were being fed into optical-scan machines on election night was so crowded that ballots had to be placed on the floor, Tuckerman said.

"It was totally hectic," she said.

The problem was discovered when Tuckerman found that one precinct showed 131 percent of registered voters had cast ballots.

So the original 136,000 vote advantage for Bush keeps dwindling by the day. And soon, a full recount of the entire state.

Getting, fun, huh? Here's some speculative --- yet interesting --- math about what could happen in that coming Ohio recount from "jsmdlawyer" at DailyKos. But by all means, Mainstream Media? There's nothing to see here...Move along...Let's see that hilarious Turkey pardoning footage again! That was a riot!

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