Franklin Co has not yet counted Paper Ballots!

[PuppyBismark]

I just checked their web site and all the paper ballot counts are ZERO! What's up with that? In my precinct 20% of the votes were made on paper.

:wtf:

[MeDeMax]

1. my county had around 30,000 or nearly 35% paper BLTs - n/t

[geiger]

2. damn. what is going on down there?

i forget the numbers; does Mary Jo Kilroy still have a chance?

[MeDeMax]

3. looks like they counted the paper ballots

http://vote.franklincountyohio.gov/

click on "Pre-Final Absentee and Election Day Paper Results"

[PuppyBismark]

5. Results posted show zero for Nov4 Paper

See <http://vote.franklincountyohio.gov/election-results/> Click on text and you will see what is below. Also, the BOA is not taking calls. When you get past the automated attendant it says it is after hours. Just spoke to reporter who told me that the SOS is waiting for Franklin Co. paper counts. Two very close elections for US House.

The count BO that shows based on the link indicated is 285,499, which is what shows below. As indicated, paper shows zero, so something is a problem. Either they have included the paper results in the Nov 4th column, or have not yet released the paper results.

Notice the zero after 156,260 which is the paper count for BO. (Sorry could not format in table view)


Franklin County, Ohio
2008 General Election Unofficial Results
Last Updated: 11/05/2008 05:31:46 AM

PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT FEDERAL
855 of 855 Precincts Reporting


Name Party Absentee Nov4 Votes Nov4 Paper Total
Barack Obama DEM 129,239 156,260 0 285,499
John McCain REP 77,189 115,374 0 192,563
Ralph Nader NON 1,078 1,503 0 2,581
Bob Barr LIB 706 1,134 0 1,840
WRITE-IN - 600 620 0 1,220
Chuck Baldwin CON 257 490 0 747
Cynthia McKinney GRN 254 320 0 574
Richard Duncan NON 62 147 0 209
Brian Moore SOC 48 101 0 149

[MeDeMax]

4. they are so close

http://vote.sos.state.oh.us/pls/enrpublic/f?p=130:105:0::NO::P105_RACE_OR_ISSUE_ID:2DFD7349CB5B49A58DACFBFE855A40FB

just 321 votes separate them out of over 250,000 cast.

[geiger]

6. %*&!0)!!!!!

U.S. Representative - District 15

Candidate % of Votes Number Of Votes
Stivers, Steve (R) 45.67% 123,322
Kilroy, Mary Jo (D) 45.55% 123,001

[Kolesar]

9. the same data is being reported on Thursday at noon at the SOS office...eom

[PuppyBismark]

7. Just confirmed that paper ballot counts have not been released

I just spoke with a producer at one of the TV stations and confirmed that the Franklin Co. BOA, has not yet posted paper ballot counts. The station is there now filming the counting of the ballots. As an election official at a Franklin Co. polling location, I can tell you that we had about 15% of our regular votes cast on paper. We were instructed to announce every 30 minutes that anyone waiting for a machine could vote on paper and it would be counted. It really did speed up the voting, we had 8 people voting paper and 6 voting on machines during busy periods.

The bad news is that more Dems voted early and more Repubs voted at the polls. There are some very close races we could lose.

[PuppyBismark]

8. Franklin Co. published results tonight. N/T

[geiger]

10. I just checked these "results"

Kilroy 118,645 Shivers 106,697 Noble 11,173


anyone know anything different?

[geiger]

11. look at this link: I think Mary Jo will pull it out, and look how great her pix looks, too!!

http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/11/06/copy/LIMBO.ART_ART_11-06-08_A1_4KBQDFJ.html?adsec=politics&sid=101

[MeDeMax]

12. that is so awesome

I hope Mary Jo goes to DC this time, poor girl has worked hard enough and waited long enough.