Sunday, November 07, 2004
"Bush won Ohio by 136,483 votes.�In the United States, about 3 percent of votes cast are voided�known as �spoilage� in election jargon�because the ballots cast are inconclusive. Drawing on what happened in Florida and studies of elections past, Palast argues that�if Ohio�s discarded ballots were counted, Kerry would have won the state. Today, the Cleveland Plain Dealer�reports there are a total of 247,672 votes not counted in Ohio, if you add the 92,672 discarded votes plus the 155,000 provisional ballots. So far there's no indication that Palast's hypothesis will be tested because only the provisional ballots are being counted."
