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The Village Voice | November 3, 2004

No matter what claims George Bush makes to another term now, we can't know without seeing Ohio's provisional ballots what voters here intended to say. By law, those ballots can't be counted until 11 days after the election.

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Tags: election postmortem, Christians, Focus on the Family, Minister James Dobson, Senator Edward M. Kennedy

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