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Title: Open Thread: New Hampshire Recount
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Le Chevaux
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Published: Jan 16, 2008
Author: Le Chevaux
Post Date: 2008-01-16 21:53:14 by Horse
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I have searched Reuters, UPI, AP, AFP, Reuters and Granny Warriors to no avail. The recount began in New Hampshire. Does anyone have any word on the the first day's count went? I found out today that the optical scan versus hand count was even worse than originally reported as 14 towns that had switched from hand to machine were erroneously included. A few local stations in New Hampshire were covering the recount in depth but maybe they won't release partial or even daily results.
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The good news is the recount is happening. Good News From New Hampshire - CONFIRMED! Ron Paul for President - Join a Ron Paul Meetup group today! N.H. Primary Democratic Re-Count Under Way
New Hampshire to Recount Democrat Ballots Today « Wake Up America
What to expect from a NH Recount and Why
CONCORD, N.H.—Teams of counters have started re-counting the Democratic ballots cast in last week's New Hampshire presidential primary. more stories like this They are looking first at ballots from Manchester. Secretary of State William Gardner says his office has received $27,000 from Ohio Democrat Dennis Kucinich to pay for the start of the re-count. Gardner said observers from campaigns and fair elections groups have the right to see and approve every ballot. Kucinich received less than 2 percent of the vote. He said he is suspicious of the results, although he doesn't expect a re-count to change his vote count much. Kucinich can stop the re-count at any time and get a refund for the balance of the costs. To re-count the entire state would cost him about $70,000. The Secretary of State's office received at $56,000 check on Wednesday from Republican Albert Howard of Michigan, who has asked for a re-count of the GOP primary. Gardner was not available to say when the Republican re-count would begin.
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http://www.blackboxvoting.org/ Red Flags on the New Hampshire Primary 1-15-08: Can recount chain of custody be rescued? At this point we can pretty much guarantee the New Hampshire recount for Kucinich will match -- and that's not a good thing, because unless chain of custody can be documented properly, the recount doesn't provide real answers. Democratic candidate Dennis Kucinich did not order a statewide recount today, only two counties, and the Republican candidate, Albert Howard, was cut out of the recount altogether. I'll write more on the details later this week. I have been doing field work since Saturday here in New Hampshire. Donations have been helping underwrite the costs of a citizen dream team: I invited some outstanding people to join me here to evaluate chain of custody for the recount: Susan Pynchon (Florida Fair Elections Coalition, has helped unravel the Sarasota situation); Melisa Urda (Illinois Ballot Integrity Project, has helped get the Illinois attorney general to issue a special directive ordering DuPage County to follow the law); and Paddy Shaffer (Ohio Election Justice Campaign, with Richard Hayes Phillips helped unravel the ballot chain of custody in Ohio). Others, like Election Defense Alliance Sally Castleman, have been organizing a team of citizen videographers, while Bruce O'Dell and Theron Horton have been quietly crunching the numbers to pinpoint locations with unusual footprints. (I also hoped to have the great Kathleen Wynne, but had to red-eye out to New Hampshire on such short notice that the timing didn't work this time.) VERDICT: New Hampshire is unable to document its chain of custody properly, lacks written procedures, its secretary of state has said he doesn't know where its memory cards are, and LHS has been encroaching on state elections with near-total control. I'll be preparing a Special Report when I return from New Hampshire with documents and video to support this assessment. VIDEO CAMERA CONFISCATION? In New Hampshire, ballots are brought from each town and ward to a central location for recounts. We got a tip today that the location would be the state archive building, so we went there hoping for a walk-through. There, police told us that videotaping the delivery of the ballots and the unloading of the ballots, would be prohibited and cameras would be confiscated if people were caught doing this. The rationale, we were told, was that they had placed the ballot delivery area in a state building with a parking lot that belonged to a mental hospital located on the grounds about a block away. On the theory tha... More 1-12-08: Red Flags over New Hampshire New Hampshire's 2008 primary election may prove to be the most fascinating presidential preference race in history. - Both Democrat and Republican candidates have requested recounts - More than half of New Hampshire's elections administrators hand count paper ballots in public at the polling place, with a public chain of custody. The rest of New Hampshire's towns and cities use Diebold voting machines to count votes in secret, with a secret chain of custody. - Hand count and machine count locations, when calculated statewide, show an eerie statistic: 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% - Two hand count towns reported "zero" votes for candidate Ron Paul to the media, even though they did have votes for him. The town of Sutton reported zero, but had 31 votes; the town of Greenville reported zero, but had 25 votes. The two towns had misreported results affecting exactly the same candidate in exactly the same way. - Results in many locations arrived up to four hours late on Election Night, surprisingly, from machine-counted locations -- not hand count locations; - A single private entity had control over coding for every memory card in New Hampshire. According to the contract for LHS Associates, this firm requires a right of access to any voting machine at any time, services the machines, maintains the machines and handles repairs, replacements and troubleshooting on Election Day. - Ken Hajjar, a key employee of this sole source private entity, LHS Associates, has a criminal record for narcotics trafficking. The state of New Hampshire knew of this conviction but approved the contractor anyway. According to a complaint filed with the New Hampshire Attorney General, Hajjar had called the Dan Pierce radio show in 1999 and threatened to rig an election. - A high number of "other" votes appeared in Manchester, where over 570 people apparently decided to go to the polls and choose none of the first tier OR second tier candidates. - The voting system in New Hampshire was updated, but to a version that had been proven to be vulnerable in studies in Florida and California. Instead of upgrading to newer versions which at least claim to address known security vulnerabilities, New Hampshire chose to implement none of the beefed up procedures or upgraded versions that other states are using.
check these raw #s Paul Campaign wants equal time after beating Giuliani and Thompson… Again Larry Fester Published 01/16/2008 - 6:23 p.m. EST Kent Snyder, chairman of the Ron Paul 2008 campaign Republican presidential campaign issued the following statement in response to the results of the Michigan primary: “After beating Rudy Giuliani in Michigan, and Fred Thompson in New Hampshire, Ron Paul has now bested both ‘national frontrunners’ in Michigan, and in the three races held thus far Paul has received over 30,000 votes more than either of the candidates. “If I had predicted that result when this campaign started almost twelve months ago, I would have been laughed out of the room by the so-called experts. Currently there is no frontrunner and this race is wide open. “In Michigan, Dr. Paul’s message resonated with voters because he discusses issues that nobody else will even acknowledge. Dr. Paul is the foremost expert on monetary policy, and he truly understands the crunch that Americans are feeling due to high taxes and high inflation that drives up gas prices and mortgage payments.” Paul’s campaign has been censored by corporate media monopolies attempting to manipulate the U.S. presidential election. Still, the campaign managed to raise more money than all of the other candidates in the fourth quarter. At this time, Paul and Romney are the only candidates financially positioned to compete on Super Tuesday. McCain, Huckabee, Giuliani, and Thompson have been propped up by free media and don’t appear to have a large enough donor base to compete on their own unless they win South Carolina or Nevada. Below are the combined vote totals for Iowa, New Hampshire and Michigan: Romney - 443,139 Total Votes Giuliani - 50,925 Total Votes Ron Paul for President - Join a Ron Paul Meetup group today! More good info here too.
Ron Paul for President - Join a Ron Paul Meetup group today! Prison Planet said the recount could take a month. That means that the recount will not be made public until all the voting is over on Super Tuesday. This really sucks because it means we will only be given a choice between Wall Street's two favorite crooks again.
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Just based on the first day's worth of findings in the recount, Americans should be demanding only paper ballots with a well-observed count. Missing memory cards, 550 ballots not counted...
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#6. To: TwentyTwelve (#2)
Finally someone reported something accurate.
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#9. To: TwentyTwelve, palo verde, buckeye, Cynicom, lodwick, christine, *Ron Paul for President 2008* (#7)
(thanks for that link)
McCain - 361,546 Total Votes
Huckabee - 207,308 Total Votes
Paul - 84,554 Total Votes
Thompson - 49,198 Total Votes
Hunter - 4,567 Total Votes
The Revolution will not be televised!
#10. To: Max (#9)
The Revolution will not be televised!
#11. To: TwentyTwelve, robin (#7)
#12. To: Horse (#11)
Prison Planet said the recount could take a month. That means that the recount will not be made public until all the voting is over on Super Tuesday.
The Revolution will not be televised!
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