Reply #43: That was because the County Commissioners are a bunch of...

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fucking idiots. They are the ones that had the B of E locked down, not the head of the Warren County B of E.

I was just at the B of E Saturday voting for Paul Hackett and I struck up a conversation with the woman who took my ballot. She is a Democrat and explained the whole mess to me. From what I understand the B of E has both repukes and and Democrats on staff and one will not let the other do anything illegal (as they say).

I also worked the election as a polling judge for the Democrat side. By Ohio law there has to be an equal number of Democrats and repukes at each polling station and there must be Democrats and repukes at the B of E's when the ballots come in so they are not "spoiled" per say.

As much as anyone else on DU I would like to think we lost because of outright fraud but as far as I can see that is just not the case. Where things get interesting is the provisional ballots, where they counted or not. My guess is they were not handled the same at each B of E in the State and most were not counted. That would be 88 B of E's since there are 88 counties in the State.

One grip I do have is why in the hell would anyone put themselves in a position to have to receive a provisional ballot in the first place other than the voter registrations being mishandled by the B of E's which in my opinion would constitute fraud. I know Ken Blackwell tried to have voter registrations deemed spoiled if the proper weight of paper was not used. Luckily that was thrown out by the courts.

Considering the overwhelming turn out in Warren County it was unlikely that John Kerry would have come close to winning. This fucking county is 88% repuke. The split was 64% for Bush* and 36% for Kerry. Considering that only 12% of the registered voters in the County are Democrats we were 300% above our numbers. I do realize that there are some Democrats that register repuke here in the county but that is so they can vote in the primaries for many of the city, township and county positions they are run unopposed in the general election (i.e. no Democrats on the ballot).