Subject: 77 out of the 88 counties have counted the provisional ballots in Ohio, and....

And some democrats wanted to wait an extra 11 days to count the provisional ballots saying that somehow with only 155,000 of them they could over take Bush's 136,000 vote lead.  Story:


Absentee/Provisional/Vote Corrections from 75 of 88 counties reporting Official results. These are to be added(in some cases subtracted)to(from) the unofficial results on the SOS website. http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/results/index.html

County Bush, Kerry:

Adams +173 +91 Allen not reported Alglaize +575 +171 Ashland +345 +210 Ashtabula not reported Athens not reported Belmont +314 +318 Brown +167 +82 Butler +3131 +2049 Carroll +164 +108 Clermont +1252 +567 Clark +481 +679 Clinton +313 +173 Champaign +286 +215 Columbiana +542 +542 Coshocton +156 +115 Crawford +218 +147 Cuyahoga not reported Darke +433 +185 Defiance +385 +292 Delaware +905 +557 Erie +583 +756 Fairfield +640 +453 Fayette +154 +90 Franklin not reported Fulton +196 +126 Gallia +257 +176 Geauga +401 +269 Greene +1536 +1181 Guernsey +866 +696 Hamilton +6765 +8543 Hancock +756 +413 Hardin not reported Harrison -45 -45 Henry +131 +83 Highland +341 +182 Hocking +124 +108 Holmes +167 +73 Huron +281 +229 Jackson +203 +180 Jefferson +297 +345 Knox +404 +215 Lake +1578 +1578 Lawrence +279 +237 Licking +922 +701 Logan +387 +181 Lorain not reported Lucas not reported Madison +189 +120 Mahoning +744 +1569 Marion not reported Medina +684 +539 Meigs +117 +103 Mercer +624 +191 Miami not reported Monroe +54 +77 Montgomery +3645 +4715 Morgan +62 +63 Morrow +162 +124 Muskingum +350 +371 Noble 0 0 73 provisionals counted+included on 11/2 Ottawa +255 +199 Paulding +131 +66 Perry +88 +52 Pickaway +296 +190 Pike +134 +124 Portage +531 +759 Preble +221 +109Putnam +174 +44 Richland +628 +585 County Site Ross +289 +276 Sandusky -1629 -1256 9 precincts double counted 11/2 Scioto +319 +385 Seneca +261 +188 Shelby +379 +197 Stark not reported Summit not reported Trumbull +756 +1352 Tuscarawas +466 +394 Union +276 +119 Van Wert +194 +68 Vinton +57 +39 Warren +1514 +644 Washington +451 +338 Wayne +446 +331 Williams +407 +250 Wood not reported Wyandot +300 +153

CURRENT TOTAL:
Bush- +40,638 (53%)
Kerry- +36,749 (47%)

Bush leads by 3889 currently in the count of Provisional/Absentee/Vote error corrections, without the Franklin machine error figured in. When you include it in the count since 11/2/04 there is NO Gain for either one thus far. Of the 75 Counties with official results assessed, 82,195 Provisional ballots, and added absentee’s have been settled. The 13 Counties not yet reporting official results have 73,233 Provisional ballots to assess and report. Of the 73,233, only 51,263 will be deemed valid using a generous 70% validity rate(Lucas and Cuyahoga published rates are much lower).In those 13 counties that remain Kerry received 57% of the votes counted on Election Day, which using a generous 60/40 split would go Kerry 30,758 to Bush 20,505 for a difference of 10,253 in Kerry’s favor. This gain of 10,253 subtracted from Bush’s unofficial lead of 136,483 equates to a Bush Certified win in Ohio of 126,230 votes. One final BIG Point is the so called UNDERVOTES! THESE ARE NOT VOTES! They are ballots where no discernable vote for president was cast, in other words the person voted for NONE OF THE ABOVE! How hard is it to believe that 90,000 people out of 6 million decided not to vote for anyone for president? In Ohio none of the above was not a choice to mark on the ballot, so voters who were displeased with the choices simply skipped the President box and moved on. Here in Nevada, None of the above was on the ballot and got almost as many votes as Nader!The real target in this whole thing is Blackwell, not Bush. The Dems know he is a big up and comer in the Republican party and since they can't afford any more prominant Republicans, they need to dump as much nonsense on him as possible. They are trying to Kathrine Harris him and want the tagline in two years to be "Republican governatorial candidate Ken Blackwell who presided over the Ohio election mess two years ago as Secretary of State" Lets make sure they don't succeed in tarnishing this good man's name.