Kucinich paying for NH recount

[Parkbandit]

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 New 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."

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Hmm.. is he just fucking with Clinton to get on the good side of Obama.. or is he really concerned about the difference between polling numbers and outcome?

[Gan]

I like it that he's gotta foot the tab for the recount. I also like it that he's a Democrat requesting a recount over Democrat ballotts.

:yes:

[Sean of the Thread]

He just wants a little more spotlight before he fades away. It was probably already listed in his advertisement budget.

[Tsa`ah]

He just wants a little more spotlight before he fades away. It was probably already listed in his advertisement budget.

I don't believe so.

Kucinich, imo, is probably one of the few stand up "moral" guys in politics today. He has openly and repeatedly criticizes the use diebold machines that ballots ... and he voted for an investigation into the merit of impeaching Clinton, though he voted against actual impeachment.

Unlike those of us who aren't convinced nothing happened with the vote, he has the ability to do something about it and is.

[Mabus]

Those Diebold machines are so hackable it is sick. They all use the same key, and you open them and slip a program card in you can control the count perfectly. There is no paper for the voter, and the paper it produces later (during recounts) is based on the info stored internally.

Not saying there were any irregularities, but that there are potential problems with the system. All votes should have a hard-copy. One without a "chad" problem. One that cannot possibly be hacked.

In my district they lost several of the cards in a previous election previous to the county counting them, resulting in many people not having their vote counted. They are now scrapping $21 million worth of the machines, and going with optical scan.

This long after the 2000 election and we still cannot get the accuracy and reliability of a $60 cash register in an expensive voting machine.

[Bhuryn]

Not that it matters really but there were serious problems on both sides. I saw one article where Ron Paul had 0 votes in alot of counties which were later changed after people called in and called them on it.

Voting integrity is seriously flawed right now.

[Gan]

Here's a thought. Swipe your National ID card and vote. Now matching up votes with ID's makes it easy to tell who's voted, who hasnt, and if any dead people have voted.

[Hulkein]

How about we just don't use machines that are, apparently, easier to manipulate than paper ballots?

[CrystalTears]

It's ironic because people attempt to use these new systems to avoid having to manually count the votes, however people seem to want to have a recount done afterwards, and then wind up having to count them manually anyway. Seems like a waste of time.