my final election post
Haha, just kidding. There'll be more.
To summarize the current political situation: Kerry conceded the state of Ohio to Bush, because he is down by 136 483 votes. There are still between 155 000 and 250 000 "provisional ballots" to be counted there, but the election officials can't start counting them, by law, until November 13. This law gives them enough time to check each of the ballots; provisional ballots are given when there is uncertainty of one kind or another. Many of them will not be counted, because of spoilage or voter ineligibility. So a huge majority of the remaining provisional ballots would have to go to Kerry for him to win, which is very unlikely.
Oh, and Ohio was using a bunch of Diebold Inc.'s voting machines. On an unrelated note, the chief executive of Diebold Inc. said, in 2003, that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president," as quoted here.
Update: An Ohio voting machine accidentally gave Bush 3 893 extra votes. Oops.
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Either way, Kerry won in Ohio, according to this article. Greg Palast writes that the reason for the discrepancies between the exit polls (which favoured Kerry) and the counted results is that there were 92 672 discarded ballots, and most of them (as well as most of the provisional ballots) would be Democrat votes.
And BoingBoing, as always, sums things up nicely.
Also look to Jared's blog, junkyardjew, for an interesting post about Naomi Klein's opinion of the future of Iraq.
To summarize the current political situation: Kerry conceded the state of Ohio to Bush, because he is down by 136 483 votes. There are still between 155 000 and 250 000 "provisional ballots" to be counted there, but the election officials can't start counting them, by law, until November 13. This law gives them enough time to check each of the ballots; provisional ballots are given when there is uncertainty of one kind or another. Many of them will not be counted, because of spoilage or voter ineligibility. So a huge majority of the remaining provisional ballots would have to go to Kerry for him to win, which is very unlikely.
Oh, and Ohio was using a bunch of Diebold Inc.'s voting machines. On an unrelated note, the chief executive of Diebold Inc. said, in 2003, that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president," as quoted here.
Update: An Ohio voting machine accidentally gave Bush 3 893 extra votes. Oops.
(Link, login "smallflightlessbird@email.com", password "1small")
Either way, Kerry won in Ohio, according to this article. Greg Palast writes that the reason for the discrepancies between the exit polls (which favoured Kerry) and the counted results is that there were 92 672 discarded ballots, and most of them (as well as most of the provisional ballots) would be Democrat votes.
And BoingBoing, as always, sums things up nicely.
Also look to Jared's blog, junkyardjew, for an interesting post about Naomi Klein's opinion of the future of Iraq.
