[PAA-Discuss] Kucinich Requests Recount of NH Ballots

Fri Jan 11 10:50:01 EST 2008

I'm getting ready to contact the New Hampshire Secretary of State's office
to demand a recount be done. Please see the article below from AlterNet and
do the same. Thanks.

Kris

Kucinich Requests Recount of New Hampshire Ballots

Posted by Manila Ryce <http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/ryce/> , The Largest
Minority <http://www.jwharrison.com/blog/>  at 7:07 AM on January 11, 2008.

"This is not about my candidacy or any other individual candidacy. It is
about the integrity of the election process," says Kucinich. 

Hillary has not only taken policy advice from the Neocons, but advice on how
to "win" elections as well. Exit polls are never wrong, yet they predicted
that Gore would win Florida in 2000, that Kerry would win Ohio in 2004, and
that Obama would win New Hampshire last week. What's the variable that ties
all of these anomalies together? Diebold.

Only 20% of New Hampshire's primary ballots were counted by hand. The other
80% were counted exclusively by Diebold machines. Obama secured his
predicted lead on the hand-counted ballots, but Diebold-counted ballots
ended up giving the lead to Hillary. Stalin once said, "The people who cast
the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."
Or was it John Kerry who said that after he conceded the 2004 election? Well
whoever said it, it's Kucinich
<http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hI6F-VhnmJPDIgAFnfu6VPHpqapAD8U3EBKG0>
who has had the courage above his slighted contenders to request that the
New Hampshire Secretary of State William Gardner recount Tuesday's election.

"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."

Also, the reports, allegations, and rumors regarding possible vote-count
irregularities have been further fueled by the stunning disparities between
various "independent" pre-election polls and the actual election results,"
Kucinich wrote. "The integrity, credibility, and value of independent
polling are separate issues, but they appear to be relevant in the context
of New Hampshire's votes."

He added, "Ever since the 2000 election - and even before - the American
people have been losing faith in the belief that their votes were actually
counted. This recount isn't about who won 39% of 36% or even 1%. It's about
establishing whether 100% of the voters had 100% of their votes counted
exactly the way they cast them."

Kucinich, who drew about 1.4% of the New Hampshire Democratic primary vote,
wrote, "This is not about my candidacy or any other individual candidacy. It
is about the integrity of the election process." No other Democratic
candidate, he noted, has stepped forward to question or pursue the claims
being made.

"New Hampshire is in the unique position to address - and, if so determined,
rectify - these issues before they escalate into a massive, nationwide
suspicion of the process by which Americans elect their President. Based on
the controversies surrounding the Presidential elections in 2004 and 2000,
New Hampshire is in a prime position to investigate possible irregularities
and to issue findings for the benefit of the entire nation," Kucinich wrote
in his letter.

"Without an official recount, the voters of New Hampshire and the rest of
the nation will never know whether there are flaws in our electoral system
that need to be identified and addressed at this relatively early point in
the Presidential nominating process," said Kucinich, who is campaigning in
Michigan this week in advance of next Tuesday's Presidential primary in that
state.

You can contact New Hampshire Secretary of State William Gardner at
(603)-271-3242 or at Elections at sos.state.nh.us. Every transfer of these
ballots in the chain of custody from person to person must also be
documented and proven that nobody else could have accessed them.

It's clear from Disney's lock out of Kucinich from the previous debates that
corporations have too much control over our electoral process. They have the
power to manipulate everything we see and know about this world, and use
that power frequently to their advantage. Government is supposed to check
private power, but when the so-called top-tier candidates are owned by this
Mickey Mouse operation, there is no accountability. Since they've failed,
it's up to you and me. Kucinich can't do it alone. ABC and Diebold would
never have robbed us in broad daylight if they didn't think they could get
away with it. They've crushed democracy in Florida, Ohio, and now New
Hampshire. Don't let your state be next. Demand a recount.

h/t to BradBlog for bringing this to my <http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5544>
attention 

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