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Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Ack! Bill the Cat to demand a recount

Bill the Cat, a two-time Radical Meadow Party nominee for president, received at least one vote in the Ohio 2nd Congressional District Tuesday.





















Even with voting systems that electronically scan and count every ballot without human eyes ever having to look at them, some votes can only be counted by hand.

They're the write-in votes, and they were counted early this morning. The highest-profile race with write-ins was the 2nd Congressional District, so that the final, unofficial results actually look like this:

Schmidt, Jean Republican 115,817 50.58%
Wulsin, Victoria Democratic 112,952 49.32%
Noy, Nathan
Write-in
179 0.08%
Condit, James J Write-in
49 0.02%

But those also-rans don't even include the dozens of didn't-runs who did not register as write-in candidates, but nonetheless received some measure of support from voters looking for an alternative to the Wulsin-Schmidt duopoly.

They included more than a few votes for former U.S. Rep. Rob Portman, plus Mickey Mouse, Bill Cunningham, Mike McConnell, Bill the Cat, Tom Brinkman Jr. and John Murtha.

And then there were some voters who apparently thought it was an essay question, and tried to use the tiny write-in space as a federal government suggestion box. Suffice it to say that elections staffers who have been working for 18 hours straight don't have the inclination or the legal authority to tally up those answers.


6 Comments:

at 10:03 PM, November 08, 2006 Blogger College Hillbilly said...

Just curious: Has anyone ever seen Bob McEwen in the same room as Steve Dallas?

 
at 10:05 AM, November 09, 2006 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Nathan Noy, who fearlessly predicted recently that "Schmidt is toast," garnered a grand total of 179 votes throughout the Second District. That's an average of not quite 25.6 votes in each of the 7 counties. For all the headaches Chillicothe's finest son caused among Republicans, his final vote tally brings to mind the Shakespeare quote: "Much ado about nothing." And just think, there were several noisy pseudo-Republicans in Hamilton County who actually bragged about voting for young Nathan. What a waste.

 
at 10:10 AM, November 09, 2006 Anonymous Anonymous said...

thats amazing that condit got 49 votes in support of his jewish banker world conspiracy.

 
at 10:44 AM, November 09, 2006 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Nathan Noy is well-known for making posts under pseudonyms. I wonder how many of the 179 votes were his.

Noy's a two-time loser. He lost and Schmidt won.

LOSER!!

 
at 6:08 PM, November 13, 2006 Blogger thirstycoon said...

Democracy is at work, and the final count is still out on Schmidt-Wulsin. Even if Schmidt wins, and it is likely she will, she should consider how to best represent all of the people of her district. After all, nearly half did not vote for her, and she had the advantage as an incumbent.

 
at 8:16 PM, November 13, 2006 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Crk, a good post and a fair enough comment on the close of the Schmidt/Wulsin contest. As a supporter of Congresswoman Jean Schmidt, I will be particularly interested in seeing to it that she performs her duties fairly and within the parameters of her values and commitments.

 
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