I don't know if Palast is right or wrong. We all know there were serious problems with the election, and the blogosphere is busily examining the data with a fine-toothed comb.

Since we are proud members of the "reality-based community," I strongly believe we should approach this topic rationally, putting hard facts ahead of our beliefs.

But IF - based on solid facts - we can build an irrefutable case that Kerry really won Ohio, then we should fight with all our collective might to have Kerry declared the winner in Ohio, and have Ohio's 20 electors awarded to him, and have him sworn in as President in January.

Kerry Won
Greg Palast
November 04, 2004

Bush won Ohio by 136,483 votes. Typically in the United States, about 3 percent of votes cast are voided—known as “spoilage” in election jargon—because the ballots cast are inconclusive. Palast’s investigation suggests that if Ohio’s discarded ballots were counted, Kerry would have won the state. Today the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports  there are a total of 247,672 votes not counted in Ohio, if you add the 92,672 discarded votes plus the 155,000 provisional ballots.