candidates were separated by just under 4,000 votes. Objection to certification of Ohio's electoral votes On January 6, 2005, Senator Barbara Boxer of California joined Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Ohio in filing a congressional objection to the certification of Ohio's Electoral College votes due to alleged irregularities including disqualification of provisional ballots, alleged misallocation of voting machines, and disproportionally long waits in poor and predominantly African-American communities. The Senate voted the objection down 1–74; the House voted the objection down 31–267. It was only the second congressional objection to an entire state's electoral delegation in U.S. history; the first instance was in 1877, when all the electors from Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina, and one from Oregon—twenty in all—were challenged. (An objection to one faithless elector was filed in 1969.) References External links Steve Rosenthal, Washington Post "Okay, We Lost Ohio. The Question Is, Why?" December 5, 2004 William Raspberry, Washington Post Comments on problems with the 2004 election January 10, 2005 Manuel Roig-Franzia and Dan Keating, Washington Post "Latest Conspiracy Theory – Kerry Won – Hits the Ether" November 11, 2004 Mark Hertsgaard, Mother Jones, "Recounting Ohio" November 2005 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Rolling Stone, "Was the 2004 Election Stolen?" June 1, 2006 Farhad Manjoo, Salon, Was the 2004 Election Stolen? No. – Critique of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Rolling Stone Article June 3, 2006 Final Tallies Minus Exit Polls=A Statistical Mystery!, John Allen Paulos. November 24, 2004 Mark Crispin Miller, Harper's None Dare Call it Stolen August 2005 2004 United States presidential election Voter suppression