Votes and Fishes
Colin Shea posting at Zogby has some interesting insights on the vote counting in Ohio…
In 30 precincts,
more ballots were cast than voters were registered in the county.
According to county regulations, voters must cast their ballot in the
precinct in which they are registered. Yet in these thirty precincts,
nearly 100.000 more people voted than are registered to vote — this
out of a total of 251.946 registrations. These are not marginal
differences–this is a 39% over-vote. In some precincts the over-vote
was well over 100%. One precinct with 558 registered voters cast nearly
9,000 ballots. As one astute observer noted, it’s the ballot-box
equivalent of Jesus’ miracle of the fishes. Bush being such a man of
God, perhaps we should not be surprised.
