Ohio Update
Ohio Democratic Party officials are sending out a response to the multitude of angry folks demanding action over the (mis)counting of ballots. It gives an update about where things stand presently. The highlights:

• The 155,000 provisional ballots, along with the overseas absentee ballots, will be counted. But not until Saturday the 13th, when all absentee ballots with the proper postmark date have been given a chance to come in.
• Ohio did not use any Diebold voting machines during this election. Some counties use an older electronic system which has a verifiable check built in. The rest use punch card ballots.
• 93,000 punch card ballots did not register a vote for President, or registered more than one vote. These will be inspected if and only if there is a recount.
• Automatic recounts are triggered if the count is within 0.25 percent. That would mean the gap would have to close to around 19,000 according to this--I didn't bother to do the math myself (The gap is at just over 130,000 presently).
• A recount can also be triggered by a request. By a losing candidate. (It is not clear whether such a request could be denied, and if not, why not talk a losing 3rd party candidate into making the request?). Of course Kerry would not do this, but if the provisionals were to bring the gap down within 30,000, unlikely, I would sure recommend it.
• Every county election commission has been put on notice to search all results for potential errors like the 4,000 vote pro-Bush error that happened in one county.