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Election officials in two Ohio counties have discovered possible cases of people voting twice in the presidential election, and a third county found that about 2,600 ballots were double-counted. In Madison County in central Ohio, prosecutors were trying to determine Wednesday whether criminal charges should be filed against a couple who election officials said voted twice. In northeast Ohio, Summit County election workers investigated possible double votes found under 18 names. And in another case, Sandusky County election officials discovered that about 2,600 ballots from nine precincts were counted twice, likely because of worker error, elections director Barb Tuckerman said. President Bush won the election by taking Ohio with 136,000 votes more than Democrat John Kerry, according to the unofficial tally. [more]