The recount shows Bush winning Ohio by 118,457 votes over John Kerry. according to unofficial results provided to The Associated Press by the 88 counties. Lucas County, home to Toledo, was the last to finish counting.The state had earlier declared Bush the winner by 118,775 votes and plans to adjust its totals to reflect the recount later this week.
The Kerry campaign supported the recount, but said it did not expect the tally to change the election winner. Supporters of the recount, requested by two minor party candidates, said they wanted to make sure every valid vote was counted.
You think Jesse Jackson will pipe down now? Speaking of pipes, it’s the stuff in which liberals’ dreams are made.
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Links and sources:
— Blogs for Bush
— Washington Post: “Recount in Ohio Narrows Bush’s Victory Margin” — VICTORY being the operative word, in case you’re wondering. Journalists.
— New York Times: “Ohio Recount Gives a Smaller Margin to Bush_ — Notice that President Bush’s name is in the headline, not the defeated John Kerry’s.
Unrelated links: Liberal columnist is player-hating on the Power Line bloggers. And he didn’t even link to their blog in his column. Jealousy is so unbecoming. Instapundit has a round-up of readers responding to the liberal columnists’ whatchacallit envy, the same kind he’s accusing the Power Line bloggers of having.
More from Power Line. Captain Ed weighs in, as does Pejmanesque. Thomas Lifson has a column up about it already.
Mark Noonan on the failures of liberalism.
Discriminations: “If you do the math, you will find that the effect of subtracting 318 votes from Bush’s total “narrows” his winning percentage from 51.06% to 51.05%….Some narrowing.”
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so… how much did these 300 or so votes cost, after all the work was done to find them?
scsiwuzzy…
the cost is irrelevent… the integrety of the count should be paramount… look, in this particular case, it didn’t matter much, but look what is goin on in washington state… ultimately, I, as well as the vast vast majority of americans will accept the winner even if it wasn’t their choice, just as long as we feel the election was fair n square…
i thought after the fiasco in florida in 2000 that there would be a wave of voting/election reform… and it ticks me off that both parties don’t seem to really care…
the fact that ohio recount came out so close to the original counts gives me confidence in the integrity of the system… and such checks are needed more… not less.
I think it is relevent. Compare the cost of asinine recounts to that of reform. That makes it matter very much.
jab, what are you using the Washington fiasco as an example of?
A couple of things about the 2000 election and “Florida Fiasco:”
1) I’m “temporarily” house-sitting in Florida for my son, who’s shoveling my Illinois sidewalk while working on a business project there. Since “temporary” looks long term, prior to the election I went in as a poll worker in Lee County — which required two four-hour workshop sessions to qualify, and a non-partisan rule is absolute. I don’t know about other Florida counties, but Lee’s election preparation and execution was clean and, like Caesar’s wife, above suspicion.
That opinion is based on many years of experience in the political and election-time scene in Illinois, including serving as an election judge coordinator and monitor there, where “training” was not very thorough and ‘election worker non-partisanship’ is an oxymoron.
2) The 2000 election that so many on the left believe was “stolen” had problems other than Florida: Wisconsin, which then Gov. Tommy Thompson declared election morning would go to Bush by 11,000 votes, went to Gore.
Thompson’s figures were based on estimates from precinct workers up through the chain of committeemen, and IF only legitimate votes had been counted, the figures were accurate to within a few — 2 or 3 — hundred votes. But students from the U.P. of Michigan and other border states crossed into Wisconsin, went from precinct to precinct, voting numerous times each; a New York Democrat sent buses to Wisconsin to transport vagrants and homeless shelter residents, in exchange for a few dollars each and cigarettes, to multiple polls to repeatedly cast ballots.
In New Mexico, enough “misplaced ballots” were discovered to move a small but clear Bush victory into the Gore column. In Missouri, St. Louis area, Jesse Jackson won a dubious 11th hour legal challenge to keep solidly Democrat polls open several extra hours (they didn’t steal enough to win the Presidential race, but they did get Senator Ashcroft defeated by a dead guy).
And what can be said about Illinois? The Thursday prior to election day, I was at a Dupage County Bush-Cheney rally and talked to some of the Republican precinct leaders from Chicago; their numbers indicated a solid Bush stand-off in the City, which would give him a state win via the suburban Cook County, collar counties and downstate vote. Didn’t happen.
It’s possible, though not probable, that the DUI story the next day caused that many GOP voters to sit on their hands. Possible, but I’m not buying it.
There is doubtless some Republican cheating in most elections; but there’s no way the GOP stole as many votes as Democrats did, in either 2000 or 2004. Bush won both elections, and he did it with the majority of legitimate ballots cast.
As Gomer used to say , Surprise suprise ! Bush still won, This is after how many recounts ? Hanoi John has gleaned 318 more votes, at this rate of a .01 % increase with each new recount kerry may have a decided increase by the year 2025, of course that would probably be too late to matter.
But how can this be, I live in Ohio so I have a vested interest in all of this and as someone above pointed out how much money does each recount cost. Kerry did concede the election, unlike algore, he conceded then unconceded ..then finally conceded again.
How can this be in my area norhteastern Ohio, we use the punch cards for ballots, and until 2000 there has never been a problem with voting, until the dems decided that this is too difficult for some people, maybe the real problem these people cant read, but in the era of ‘illegals’ being able to vote I guess this is not a stretch. In Cleveland there were people registering people who had died years ago but I guess according to the democrats they were still eligible to vote, they are in Chicago, thankfully it was found out.
They would have us believe of the disenfranchisement of some voters, is due to the Republicans, how can this be ? The democrat precincts are run by .. democrats so where is the . But being from Ohio and living near Cleveland and one of Clevelands esteemed congress persons Stephanie Tubbs Jones protested the the vote count in Ohio, the same Congress person who when a council woman was involved in a chair throwing incident at city hall, but there reason for the vote count fraud
1. there wasn’t enough voting machines,
2.some people had to work,
3. some ‘Single Moms’ couldn’t vote because they had to take care of their children, and on an on..
and of course this is the fault of the evil Republicans.
It seems to me if the ‘dems’ would have put out a candidate with some merit there may even have been an inducement to vote for that person.
Unbelieveable !
Mark
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