imagine if they did this in every county. oh dammm, they won't let it happen.

Signed, sealed, certified: Kerry wins Cuyahoga: "But while conceding that some mistakes were inevitable, the board of elections dismissed suggestions that systemic problems caused errors, which they characterized as minimal. At 10:43 a.m., it voted unanimously to send the county's tallies to the Ohio secretary of state, who is expected to certify statewide results on Dec. 6.
Officially, the count of provisional ballots stands at 16,750 accepted and 8,552, or 34 percent, rejected. Sen. John Kerry widened his margin over President George W. Bush in the county from 217,638 to 226,880 in the official count of the race that made Ohio a nail-biter.
But the discussions surrounding the certification focused primarily on procedures and their safeguards and potential flaws that determined whose vote was counted. A focus of Monday's testimony was three lists containing names and addresses of 495 voters whose provisional ballots were rejected, according to an analysis led by Dr. Norman Robbins, a neurosciences professor at Case Western Reserve University who volunteered for the Greater Cleveland Voter Registration Coalition.
The first list held names of 32 rejected voters the coalition said it reliably registered and delivered to the elections board. The names never made it onto the rolls or were entered incorrectly, Robbins said.
The second list contained 201 rejected voters who were on county voter registration rolls Aug. 17 but had dropped off by Oct. 26. They may have inadvertently been dropped, perhaps during a September software change, Robbins said. Elections Director Michael Vu said he doubts that happened.
The third list contained 183 voters who were on rolls Oct. 26 but given provisional ballots and rejected as not registered. Another 79 were rejected because they didn't sign the provisio"