1 in 2005
When it came time to count the state's votes, Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-Ohio, rose to object and said
she had a senator.
Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., concurred, saying she was acting "to cast the light of truth on a flawed system which must be fixed now," according to a New York Times account of the challenge.
The objection failed 1-74 in the Senate and 31-267 in the House, and Republicans dismissed the complaint as sour grapes.
Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, called it Democrats’ "quadrennial crying wolf," as his colleagues ridiculed stories of disenfranchisement as “Hollywood inspired.”
Newspaper investigations identified real concerns and led officials to concede problems.
The Washington Post reported that 5,000 to 15,000 frustrated voters may have turned away from the polls without voting. Columbus-area officials also conceded they did not allocate enough voting machines to handle higher-than-expected turnout in urban precincts.
The newspaper also reported that poorly trained poll workers in Cleveland gave faulty instructions to voters that resulted in thousands of provisional ballots being rejected.
The New York Times identified other problems with outdated voting machines and “improperly calibrated touch screens” in one county that pushed an unknown number of votes to Bush before the problem was caught.
However, there problems were not deemed sufficient to question Bush's 118,000-vote victory.
Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley has led the charge to challenge Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory in Congress Wednesday.
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