From Rep. Kucinich Himself!:
DETROIT, MI – Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, the most outspoken advocate in the Presidential field and in Congress for election integrity, paper-ballot elections, and campaign finance reform, has sent a letter to the New Hampshire Secretary of State asking for a recount of Tuesday’s election because of “unexplained disparities between hand-counted ballots and machine-counted ballots.”
“I am not making this request in the expectation that a recount will significantly affect the number of votes that were cast on my behalf,” Kucinich stressed in a letter to Secretary of State William M. Gardner. But, “Serious and credible reports, allegations, and rumors have surfaced in the past few days…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 – not just in New Hampshire, but in every other state that conducts a primary election.”
The REST OF IT HERE is a really balanced at the deeper WHY of his asking, and, frankly, I think he has a good point.
He does make a good argument, and one I’d agree with. All of the arguments I read in the days following New Hampshire’s vote were from Obama supporters and they came off as whining, so I ignored them. Well, after I unsubscribed from my favorite groups, I ignored them. Glad Kucinich is pursuing this.
From OpEd News:
“Analysts at the Election Defense Alliance (EDA) have confirmed that based on the official results on the New Hampshire Secretary of state web site, there is a remarkable relationship between Obama and Clinton votes, when you look at votes tabulated by op-scan v. votes tabulated by hand:
Clinton Optical scan 91,717 52.95%
Obama Optical scan 81,495 47.05%
Clinton Hand-counted 20,889 47.05%
Obama Hand-counted 23,509 52.95%
The percentages appear to be swapped. That seems highly unusual, to say the least.”
If you saw the HBO documentary “Hacking Democracy,” you know this is what happens in a “Hurst Hack.”
Oops, I meant “Hursti Hack.” It’s named after Harry Hursti, a computer hacker from Finland who demonstrated how to flip vote totals undetectably using the same machines they have in New Hampshire.