As of right now: MORE Provisional votes than Ohio vote margin.

[MikeG]

Estimated 170,000 provisional votes - 134,000 voter margin.

[michigandem2]

1. any indication of who is favored?

[redsoxliberal]

2. apparently it's mostly african american votes in cleveland and cinci.

[MikeG]

3. They tend to be mostly Dems.

90% were allowed in a prior election.

[FatSlob]

6. Bush.

I doubt that all those provisionals are valid. It is almost impossible. This sucks.

[MikeG]

7. 90% were allowed before.

[goodboy]

4. cnn said some of them have already been counted:

shrub gets 13K so far, Kerry get's 7K

[diatribe]

11. don't know how thats possible

Sec of State Blackwell said state law requires 11 days to pass before they get counted....

[goodboy]

12. I know that to be true, I can't tell you whyCNN said it.

[Florida_Geek]

5. Thanks for info MikeG

Also if Ohio is like Florida, absentee ballots have a couple days still to show up and be counted IF they are postmarked before the 2nd

[jeanmarc]

8. That's not promising

He would need almost all of them to win, something like 152000 of them to only 18000 to Bush. I need more than this to keep the faith.

[MikeG]

10. There may be more provisional votes - A recount could lower margin

[Dudley_DUright]

13. But it could get him within the automatic recount margin

of 0.25% and then we can see what other votes are lurking around out there in the weeds of OH.

[molly]

9. Thanks for this info - I want to make a point

as I was watching C-Span, it became apparent that * and his cohorts are doing their bullying once again. THIS IS NOT OVER! I will not give up until every last vote is counted! And neither should anyone here. I will do whatever is possible to help recount.

[OhioDem2004]

14. Good News

one of my profs at OSU said there are many absentee ballots that haven't been counted

[4dsc]

15. Is Dee Dee Meyers daft??

Being interviewed and stating Kerry is boxed into a corner..

She also stated not many provisional will be counted..

She was dead wrong..