Ohio Not Official for 10 Days?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Alan Patti <gpslists () gmail com>
Date: November 4, 2004 3:32:17 PM EST
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Ohio Not Official for 10 Days?
Reply-To: Alan Patti <gpslists () gmail com>

For IP:

What are people's thoughts on this?

A friend of mine got off the phone with the office of the Ohio
Secretary of State and was told the following:

- Kerry's concession has no legal bearing on who wins the election.

- Ohio has been using and counting provisional ballots the exact same
way for the past 10 elections.

- Ohio and Federal law dictate that the state will wait 10 days and
then begin counting the provisional
ballots.

- All valid provisional ballots will be counted.

- The winner of the state of Ohio shall not be considered official
until such time as all provisional ballots have been counted.

- If Kerry is found to win Ohio, regardless of his public concession,
he will win the election.

The woman she spoke with asked that people post this information far
and wide because, for whatever reason, the media aren't reporting it.

There remain a couple of questions though. As of yesterday, Secretary
of State Blackwell said there were about 175,000 provisional ballots,
but that didn't include about 10 counties that hadn't turned theirs in
yet. Did those counties include huge democratic stronghold and highly
populated Cuyahuga county, that contains Cleveland?


J. Kenneth Blackwell
Ohio Secretary of State
180 E. Broad St. 16th Floor
Columbus, OH 43215

General Telephone Number (Toll Free): 1-877-767-6446
General Telephone Number (Local): 1-614- 466-2655

Elections questions or comments:
email: election () sos state oh us
call: 614-466-2585

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