Ohio Counties End Official Ballot Counts
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Ohio counties finished certifying votes in the presidential race Wednesday, and the results showed that election officials accepted about 77 percent of the provisional ballots that were cast.
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By Julie Carr Smyth  COLUMBUS  --  On paper, Ohio's farmland preservation program is a success.  In the seven years since the state began paying farmers not to sell to developers, nearly 27,000 farm acres have been saved.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The state certified a 2 percentage-point election victory for President George W. Bush on Monday even as independent candidates, strengthened by a federal court ruling, prepared to demand recounts in all 88 counties.
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DEMOCRATIC Senator John Kerry&#39;s party will investigate polling in the crucial state of Ohio after official US election results today confirmed President George W. Bush won there by less votes than first thought.
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By Sona Patel, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Jun. 7--Acknowledging signs of progress toward building a sewer in Los Osos, state water quality regulators have agreed to stop ordering thousands of property owners to quit using their septic tanks if a sewer is not built soon.
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Two major challenges are expected to unfold Monday when Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell certifies the state's final presidential election results, declaring President Bush the winner by about 119,000 votes.
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By Joel Hood, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Feb. 14--The filing period to run for municipal office in the March 13 elections closed Tuesday, with some candidates already victorious and others locked in heated races to the finish.
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A federal judge on Tuesday denied a request by third-party presidential candidates who wanted to force a recount of Ohio ballots even before the official count was finished.
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By Sharen Trembath  This is a last-ditch effort to let the public know about the latest attempt of the Erie County executive to balance the county budget on the back of the county parks system.
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The counting of more than 150,000 provisional ballots cast in Ohio will go forward, despite John Kerry's concession that President Bush had won the state's 20 electoral votes, election officials said Wednesday.
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By Bob Downing, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Jun. 24--The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency will accept comments through Saturday on a fund established in connection with fires and odors at a southern Stark County landfill.
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A county that switched this year from voter punch cards to an electronic scanner system still had hundreds of uncounted ballots Friday, holding up a congressional race and the balance of the state legislature.
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A British newspaper that set off a trans-Atlantic political storm when it urged its readers to write to Ohio voters in an attempt to sway their ballot choice in the U.S. presidential race said Sunday that it had ended the campaign.
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Cuyahoga county officials in Ohio are considering a switch away from touch-screen e-voting systems to optical scan devices -- a move that could mean scrapping a $17 million investment in Diebold Election Systems hardware.
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By The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Jun. 9--T   he people have spoken, though only part of what they said is clear.   Unless the final count flips things around, which is unlikely, the one certain result of Tuesday's election is that Measure A is dead.
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Despite a reputation as a battleground state, Ohio has voted Republican in the past two presidential elections, is represented in the Senate by two Republicans and has had a Republican governor for 16 years. When was the last time a Democrat won statewide office in Ohio?  1992 1996 1988 1990
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PERRYSBURG, Ohio - It was a clear-cut error: A state worker mowed down 28,000 young trees that had been planted as part of a $33,000 highway beautification project.    The only thing left behind were signs that read "Do not mow or spray."  "Shame on us...