Dennis Kucinich and Republican contender Albert Howard to pay for NH recount

He could've been a contenda I tells ya.

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9849226-7.html

January 11, 2008 3:25 PM PST

N.H. plans hand recount of primary ballots

Posted by Anne Broache

New Hampshire officials on Friday said they'll conduct a statewide hand recount of the results of Tuesday's primary in response to complaints from two underdog candidates. The last time New Hampshire conducted a statewide recount in a presidential primary was in 1980.

Dennis Kucinich, the Ohio Democratic congressman, and a Republican contender named Albert Howard, whose Web site proclaims "The Angel of the Lord told me in January of 1992 that Hillary Rodham Clinton and I would meet and be running against each other and that she would lose," will be expected to bear the costs of the recount, which is scheduled to begin Wednesday.

The exact price tag was still being determined, New Hampshire Secretary of State William Gardner said in a statement (PDF).

According to published reports, Kucinich requested the recount because of possible vote count "irregularities"--specifically, differences in results for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama between ballots that were hand-counted--typically in smaller precincts--and ballots that were counted using a machine. Most New Hampshire voters use Diebold optical-scan machines, in which voters pencil in their choices on a piece of paper that's fed through a machine, SAT-style.

will happen if the results change?

B-)

:evilgrin: :evilgrin:

to why people are skeptical. For me the biggest reason would be that although alot of the touch screen machines were not used optical scanners were and those were found to be just as faulty as the touch screen. as far as recounts go, the more the better IMHO, make the people behind the curtain honest by not giving them any room for shinanigans.

He's a cabdriver in Detroit.

I can see a lot of people whose candidates did not win..coming forward with reimbursement..

:hi:

http://grannywarrior.chipin.com/recount

looks like mostly Paul supporters.


edit to add, they're up to 27 thou or so, last night when I looked they had something like 16.....

"Mr. Kucinich ... if you cashed out everything you own and borrowed everything to the max, how much would you be able to raise? Add about a hundred thou to that, and that's how much it will cost ..."

maybe I'm wrong, but I was following the post04 election issues pretty closely and thought Nader and/or Greens forced a
recount then.. am I remembering wrong? just curious.

She says that the recount process is so rigged, it's not worth it. They will just confirm Diebold's result, cuz that's what they want to do. But others disagree in comments--and I tend to disagree. You've got to start somewhere trying to get a transparent count for November--and trying to reform this horribly compromised election system--but I hope that some good election integrity experts get involved, to call bullshit if they try to fiddle the recount. People have learned A LOT since '04. This recount is likely to be watched very closely--I hope so.

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