January 11, 2008 - 4:00pm
Kucinich requests recount in N.H.
By Jessica AlaimoCiting “serious and credible reports, allegations and rumors” about Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary results, Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich is asking for a recount, the Associated Press is reporting.
Kucinich got less than 2 percent of the vote. Under New Hampshire law, Kucinich will have to pay for the recount, which Deputy Secretary of State David Scanlan said he has “every confidence” is accurate, according to the AP.
Kucinich’s concern comes from a discrepancy between pre-election polls and the results, and also online reports, which had hand-counted ballots favoring Barack Obama but machine-counted ballots favoring Hillary Clinton.
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There is so much corruption in voting process.
Check out http://www.blackboxvoting.org/
we need audits
We have a law requiring paper ballots in Maine, but what we DON'T have is a law requiring the ballot tabulators to be audited randomly.
that is the only way to catch most errors.
Every year they do recounts in a few districts and find that the machines miscounted just a few ballots.
In 2006, there was a counting machine that miscounted by thousands of votes (in Waterville) and that was easy to catch.
but what about when the ballots are miscounted by a couple hundred? that isn't as obvious, and there probably wouldn't be a recount.
these are what we have to watch for.
I doubt there is any intentional foulplay, but machines can be miscalibrated easily.
..jon
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