Re-Vote, Not Recount, in Ohio

This is an interesting article about the situation in Ohio. Of particular interest is a section that explains how despite a seriously robust get-out-the-vote campaign and stories of long lines and waits to vote, much like everywhere else in Ohio, the turnout there came out actually 4.51% LOWER than it was in 2000--even though other similarly democratic counties with the same anecdotal evidence showed up 13% HIGHER.

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"All of these facts together suggest that Franklin and Mahoning Counties actually had much higher turnout than was reported. I believe that a large number of Franklin and Mahoning County votes were "lost" by the touch screen machines."

Another interesting section is on Warren County, where the votes were apparently counted by Republican leadership in secret because there was a "level 10 (out of 10)" terrorism threat which was denied by Homeland Security and the FBI.

I think it's obvious that point no.1 for the next time around is we HAVE to change the way votes are counted in this country and it has to be voter-verifiable. There has to be some way to know that your vote actually counted the way it was meant to. Then there would at least be a way to know if there was a problem.