Dennis wants a recount

Update: Salon’s resident tech writer Farhad Manjoo writes an excellent overview of this story and concludes that, while it is unlikely that Hillary Clinton’s victory was anything but fair and square, hand checking election results in an age of electronic voting is probably a good idea. You can check it out here http://machinist.salon.com/feature/2008/01/11/new_hampshire_vote/index.html

You know, I was wondering if anyone else found it a bit odd that the pre-election polls for the GOP pretty much predicted the N.H. primary outcome down to the percentage while the results for the democrats were wildly inaccurate. Now Dennis “I’ve got nothing to lose” Kucinich is putting his money where his mouth is and ponying up the $2,000 required by N.H. law to do a full recount of the democratic primary race.

From CNN

Citing “serious and credible reports, allegations and rumors” about the integrity of Tuesday results, Kucinich decided to ask N.H. state officials for a recount of the election. In a letter Thursday, Kucinich specifically points out alleged 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.

Now this may turn out to be nothing but a few nuts on the interweb convincing an already questionable candidate to buy into one of their ‘theories’ (Wikipedia: Pierre Salinger and his press conference concerning TWA Flight 800) but neither party has a spotless record when it comes to getting votes, as anyone in Chicago or Philadelphia can tell you. If, and that’s a big if, this ever came to anything my prediction is that it would make Obama the democratic nominee on the spot and soil the Clinton name forever in American history.