Ohio Electors Vote Despite Challenge
Tuesday, December 14, 2004 at 04:36PM December 14. 2004
The Ohio delegation to the Electoral College cast its votes for
President Bush on Monday, hours after dissident groups asked the state
Supreme Court to review the outcome of the state's presidential race.
As members of the Electoral College met across the nation to affirm the
results of last month's election, the 20 GOP electors in Ohio voted
unanimously for Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. "The vast majority
of people understand this election is over,'' said Gov. Bob Taft, who
was at the electors' voting session in the state Senate chamber. The
challengers who went to the Supreme Court question whether Bush won the
key swing state by 119,000 votes, guaranteeing his victory over
Democrat John Kerry. The court did not act on their request before the
electors cast their ballots. The Rev. Jesse Jackson and attorney Cliff
Arnebeck of the Massachusetts-based Alliance for Democracy accused
President Bush's campaign of ``high-tech vote stealing.'' Jackson said
the challengers noticed Bush generally received more votes in counties
that use optical-scan voting machines and questioned whether the
machines were calibrated to record votes for Bush. [more] and [more]
