Updated at 5:20 p.m.

You might be a stimulus fan, you might be a stimulus foe, but you've got to admire the sweep of stimulus spending in Ohio. It has provided more than $1.2 million and added three jobs in Ohio's 21st Congressional District.

Never mind that there is no such district. There also isn't a 20th, 49th, 54th, 56th, 69th, 85th, 87th or 99th, even though the federal government's Web site for tracking stimulus money lists them as getting funding. And there most certainly is not a district numbered "00," even though the government's Web site says it got $1.86 million, which helped create or save eight jobs.

Ohio Watchdog reported this yesterday. By today, the errors were noted by others. Clearly this is all a mistake, and Gov. Ted Strickland's spokeswoman, Amanda Wurst, said late today that it was caused at the "sub-recipient" level. That means local governments or local entities.

"In some cases, we believe it may be that someone entered an Ohio House district rather than a congressional district," she said. In others, someone apparently used numbers or the "00" as a place holder while filling out the forms and neglected to go back and put in the congressional district.

This occurred in other states, too. Vermont has a single congressional district, yet Recovery.gov reports stimulus spending in seven additional (and nonexistent) ones -- including Vermont's own "00."

This does little to reassure skeptics.