Breaking!!!!!!!!!! Kucinich asks for Recount in NH! (x)

[kster]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2656014

[Junkdrawer]

1. Let's talk "Chain of Custody". And I don't want no frickin 6 week delay like Ohio....

Go Dennis...

[peace13]

4. And let's not announce the precincts to be counted prior to the

audit....like Ohio.

[peace13]

2. Too cool.

Thanks for posting. Hope this doesn't get sent to the tomb. You know questioning authority is not accepted here. Peace, Kim

[Evergreen Emerald]

3. Apparently they need to double check who was chosen in Iowa too

It sounds as if many people cheated to vote in the cacus and were not really citizens of Iowa.

[Bonobo]

5. Does that mean we can be let back in GD and GDP now?

Well, fuck 'em anyway.

[Kurovski]

9. You learn fast!

:rofl: Have I welcomed you to The Election Reform forum yet?

[Bonobo]

11. You have not.

So thanks.

I like the cut of your job, Kurovski.

[Kurovski]

12. Jib?

Yeah, that's not bad either. :hi:

[Bonobo]

13. heh. oops.

[deminks]

6. Yessss. Now The Hill has picked up this story. Go Dennis!

http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/kucinich-wants-new-hampshire-recount-2008-01-10.html

Kucinich wants New Hampshire recount

Citing unspecified “serious and credible reports, allegations, and rumors” regarding the presidential primary in New Hampshire, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) is asking for a recount of the vote.

Kucinich, who placed at the back of the Democratic field with less than 1.4 percent of the votes, said in a letter to New Hampshire Secretary of State William Gardner that there were “possible vote-count irregularities” that have been “fueled by the stunning disparities between various ‘independent’ pre-election polls and the actual election results.”

The lawmaker said he does not expect his own vote count to be significantly affected by such a recount but he added that it is “imperative that these questions be addressed in the interest of public confidence in the integrity of the election process and the election machinery.”

In his request for a recount, Kucinich alleges that there have been “unexplained disparities between hand-counted ballots and machine-counted ballots.”

(snip)

“This is not about my candidacy or any other individual candidacy,” Kucinich said. “It is about the integrity of the election process”

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[deminks]

7. AP has the story now. Watch it take off.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080111/ap_po/kucinich_nh_recount_1

Kucinich seeking NH Dem vote recount

CONCORD, N.H. - 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."

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. Hillary Rodham Clinton. He also noted the difference between pre-election polls, which indicated Obama would win, and Clinton's triumph by a 39 percent to 37 percent margin.

[K Gardner]

8. And the talking heads at CNN/MSNBC will be up all night trying to figure out how to

spin it. Can you imagine the courage it took for DK to call for this? I dread the coverage of this. Honestly, they could just report it as democracy in action and applaud the transparency. But I still remember the mobs in Florida, circa 2000.

[Kurovski]

10. I just checked...

FOX...A group in evening wear singing "God Bless America."
CNN...Larry King and Nancy Grace talking about how awful murder is.
CNN/Breaking News...Glenn Beck calling everyone "crazy".

I don't receive MSNBC.

[Bill Bored]

14. MSNBC -- Olbermann, "What the HELL is going on in New Hampshire?"

Just kidding.

[Kurovski]

15. I heard that he doesn't think there is any major problem,

but I haven't checked it out for myself yet.

I guess I'll head off to the Olbermann Forum and see.

[K Gardner]

16. LOL.. nothing on MSNBC. They all go to bed at 11 pm, no matter what's going on..

That's when we get to see reruns and doc blocks, all night and all weekend long ! Will be interesting to see if it breaks through tomorrow.