[Voterescue] NH Primary Votes to be Recounted

[Vickie Karp]

Primary Votes to Be Recounted
GOP, Democratic Candidates Request It

By LAUREN R. DORGAN
Concord Monitor staff
January 12. 2008 12:20AM


Votes cast in New Hampshire's Democratic and Republican presidential
primaries will undergo a hand recount, after two candidates who garnered
little support here questioned the results.

The Democratic recount was requested by Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who
won about 1 percent of the vote in Tuesday's primary. In a letter to
Secretary of State Bill Gardner, Kucinich cited "unexplained disparities
between hand-counted ballots and machine-counted ballots" and pointed to
the divergence between opinion polls leading up to the primary - which
showed Barack Obama ahead by a wide margin - and the final outcome.
Hillary Clinton narrowly won the Democratic contest.

On the Republican side, a Michigan chauffeur and little-known
presidential candidate named Albert Howard joined forces with supporters
of Rep. Ron Paul yesterday to request a full recount of the Republican
ballots from Tuesday's primary........
Howard said he grew concerned watching the results roll in on C-SPAN on
Tuesday. With 12 percent of the precincts counted, Howard said, C-SPAN
showed he had 150 votes, then 187. Suddenly, Howard said, his name
disappeared and his vote total dipped down to 30.

"I was actually ahead of Alan Keyes for a while," Howard said. "That's
what triggered some real emotion in me."
According to unofficial tallies, Howard won 44 votes in the primary.
Keyes snagged 203.
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