August 12, 2007"2004 ballots not preserved; Result of presidential vote cannot be verified"The Cincinnati Enquirer offers this report, which begins: "Despite a federal judge's order to preserve all ballots from the 2004 presidential election - in which Ohio provided President Bush's margin of victory - boards of elections in 56 of Ohio's 88 counties lost, shredded or dumped nearly 1.6 million ballots and election records." |