It's funny. Since when was the "mainstream" press so interested in what's happening overseas? But suddenly it's all about the Ukrainian election scandal. Well we was had here too (By many people including, I'm beginning to suspect, Kerry) and there is actual news about it too, but have you heard a peep from the MSPress? I sure haven't (of course I'm likely also underserved by our local paper too.)
Ohio Tally Fit for Ukraine
by Juan Gonzalez
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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The GOP is surprisingly quiet. Either they don't see anything coming, don't care (yet?) or have some other plans. I note that the GOP Bush campaign just gave away 16 million dollars that they didn't need that was being held in case there was some legal battles to be run. On the other hand, there's more where that came from.
Maybe Ukraine is the real "October surprise"... it's shining a light back on the US.
Mainstream press? There is none. Not in the US.
Like IBM Think magazine used to be a respected journal, then became a corporate rag over time and now they just shit canned the whole thing.
(Anybody EVER get any heat about that bulge in the back of George Bush in the first debate? Hmm, where did that story go?)
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