"Recount" Over in Ohio

Ohio 'recount' came in, with the non-random random selection in most counties, the count changed only marginally.

Under Ohio law, each county must randomly choose a precinct to recount by hand and by machine. If the two counts do not match, officials must conduct a countywide recount by hand. Most county Boards of Elections, however, chose to preselect the sample precinct, a violation of the law. Some counties refused to proceed with a full hand recount when the hand and machine tallies failed to match.

In two of the three counties we observed, technicians from Diebold and Triad, manufacturers of voting machines and vote-counting software, were present during the entire recount. The Diebold technician in Hardin County was actively involved in giving instructions to the observers. Further, he arrived the day before the recount to prepare the machines and data disks that contain the election results.

As Cliff Arneback says, "You're allowing the original error to be repeated a second time, so it's not a meaningful recount," he said.

Sequel to the heartbreak in Farenheit 911 in the works...