Kucinich Seeks NH Dem Vote Recount

When the results starting coming in on Tuesday night from New Hampshire the first thing that went through my mind was "shenanigans." I came to accept a clean Hillary victory, but now that I know Diebold was used as the voting machines and have seen the vote descrepencies between the Diebold count and the hand counted ballots, my suspicions are raised yet again.


CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Democrat Dennis Kucinich, who won less than 2 percent of the vote in the New Hampshire primary, said Thursday he wants a recount to ensure that all ballots in his party's contest were counted. The Ohio congressman cited "serious and credible reports, allegations and rumors" about the integrity of Tuesday results.

Deputy Secretary of State David Scanlan said Kucinich is entitled to a statewide recount. But, under Hew Hampshire law, Kucinich will have to pay for it. Scanlan said he had "every confidence" the results are accurate.

In a letter dated Thursday, Kucinich said he does not expect significant changes in his vote total, but wants assurance that "100 percent of the voters had 100 percent of their votes counted."

Kucinich alluded to online reports alleging disparities around the state between hand-counted ballots, which tended to favor Sen. Barack Obama, and machine-counted ones that tended to favor Sen. Clinton. A Difference between pre-election polls, which indicated Obama would win, and Clinton's triumph by a 39 percent to 37 percent margin.

Candidates who lose by 3 percentage or less are entitled to a recount for a $2,000 fee. Candidates who lose by more must pay for the full cost. Kucinich's campaign said it was sending the $2,000 fee to start the recount.

Scanlon said his office had received several phone calls since Tuesday, mostly from outside the state, questioning the results. New Hampshire's voting machines are not linked in any way, which Scanlon says reduce the likelihood of tampering with results on a statewide level. Also, the results can be checked against paper ballots.

"I think people from out of state don't completely understand how our process works and they compare it to the system that might exist in Florida or Ohio, where they have had serious problems," he said. "Perhaps the best thing that could happen for us is to have a recount to show the people that ... the votes that were cast on election day were accurately reflected in the results. And I have every confidence that will be the case."

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I used the Comma delimited database: NH municipalities hand count vs use Diebold machines from BlackBoxVoting.org to see if there was a deviation between the results from precincts which used hand counts and those which relied on Diebold machines. The results were astonishing. : Results tallied for 209 out of 236 of the municipalities.

By Percentage

Method	Hillary Clinton	Barack Obama
Diebold Machines	53.23%	46.77%
Hand Count	47.47%	52.53%

By Votes

Method	Hillary Clinton	Barack Obama
Diebold Machines	82860	72807
Hand Count	18898	209

By Number of Municipalities Won

Method	Hillary Clinton	Barack Obama
Diebold Machines	54	33
Hand Count	43	77

About 81% of the votes will be “counted” by the Diebold machines.

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Then again, maybe I'm wrong in my suspicions and it's just really bad data from the pollsters.