No sour grapes from me. No conspiracy theories from me. If you would have told me 10 years ago that over 59,000,000 people would have cast their presidential election ballots for a recovering, cocaine-abusing alcoholic, who went AWOL from the Air National Guard, and was a cheerleader in college, I would have told you that you were a lunatic.
It turns out that he didn't get all those votes, though. In Ohio Republican stronghold Franklin County, where the state capital, Columbus, is located, Precinct 1-B in the Gahanna area, 638 votes were cast. It is safe to say that nobody waited more than a couple minutes to vote there, which is substantially unlike a polling place out in suburban, predominantly-black Canal Winchester, where voter number 1450, who arrived at 7:15 a.m., waited 2 1/2 hours to cast his ballot for Kerry, and where many left before voting to go to work, hoping to return later. I guess that's one way to limit access to the ballot box in an area which may have been pro-Kerry.
Oh, by the way, of those 638 votes that were cast at Precinct 1-B in Gahanna in Franklin County, Ohio, Kerry picked up 260 votes and Bush chalked up 4,258 votes.
Posted by Bill at November 6, 2004 09:09 AMwho's in charge of getting voting machines for each precinct in Ohio? I'm assuming this was not George or John''s responsibility... who is at fault? What was the difference in voter turn out last election versus this one?
I live in what would be called a middle to upper income precinct and I waited over an hour... and we all knew what was way Indiana was going.
- Dana
Posted by: -d at November 6, 2004 09:55 AMThe ultimate responsibility lies with Kenneth Blackwell, politically-ambitious, Republican secretary of state of Ohio, the same guy who tried to bar new voter registrations because the application forms were printed on 20-pound paper and not 80-pound card stock because there were not enough of the forms on card stock printed.
Posted by: Bill at November 6, 2004 11:14 AM