Posted on 01/10/2008 6:02:36 PM PST by LdSentinal
Citing unspecified “serious and credible reports, allegations, and rumors” regarding the presidential primary in New Hampshire, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) is asking for a recount of the vote.
Kucinich, who placed at the back of the Democratic field with less than 1.4 percent of the votes, said in a letter to New Hampshire Secretary of State William Gardner that there were “possible vote-count irregularities” that have been “fueled by the stunning disparities between various ‘independent’ pre-election polls and the actual election results.”
The lawmaker said he does not expect his own vote count to be significantly affected by such a recount but he added that 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.”
In his request for a recount, Kucinich alleges that there have been “unexplained disparities between hand-counted ballots and machine-counted ballots.”
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) won the Democratic primary in a stunning upset of Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.), who had surged to the top of the polls following his win in the Iowa caucuses.
In Iowa, Kucinich had urged his supporters to back Obama.
“This is not about my candidacy or any other individual candidacy,” Kucinich said. “It is about the integrity of the election process”
That's a skin rash you get from your first kucin.
There may be something to this. Kucinich probably seriously doubts that he got as many votes as the authorities said he did. An investigation may be in order.
Maybe he bet the farm on Osama on Intrade.
Let em recount. It isn’t going to hurt the GOP and just might be entertaining.
“This fellow is not as nuts as the people who actually voted for him are.”
Yeah, but the people in Cleveland love the little goof. He even convinced them years ago that he believed in the sanctity of life until the little goober decided to go national. Then, guess what . . . unborn humans are garbage to him. And they STILL ELECT HIM time after time.
“Let em recount. It isn’t going to hurt the GOP and just might be entertaining.”
Watching the Dems tear their party apart over tin-foil-hat fraud allegations will be the most fun I have this year!
Yes, a recount is in order. Could make the difference between a slightly positive count and a slightly negative count for him. ;-)
Idiocy knows no bounds.
This is good. These people have been mad so long they forgot who they were mad at.
I believe the public confidence is another word for Daily Kos or DU.
Let’s see Democrat governor, Democrat legislature, of course if it’s voter fraud it must be the Republicans doing.
Is the Secretary of State in New Hampshire, Democrat or Republican?
They will be pitting graveyard against graveyard... tombstone against tombstone...., our dead was registered, yours wasn’t!
Bwahahaaaa!
Pork Barrel queen.
Well, I think there was almost certainly massive vote fraud, with out-of-staters signing false affidavits saying they were residents.
But good luck proving it. The Democrats certainly won’t permit any real checking of names and addresses to be done. Not even if a Democrat complains.
Yeah!
Actually, this can be read as Kucinich fighting back against the Clintons. This may be a positive sign, if that is what it portends.
Hmm. Dennis might actually do something useful after all.
We all know that Kucinich was the true winner of the Dem NH primary. It had to be fixed.
....so Pluto Kucinich doesn’t like to be further back than Uranus....Too bad. You’re back there, you’re small, insignificant, and no one cares.
It isn’t voter fraud to vote in a NH election if you’re from out of state. All you have to do is declare that you’re planning to move there. Unethical, yes. Illegal, no. There was a caller on Rush last month I believe who explained it. The guy said he was a NH state house representative.
A lot of people know Kucinich to be a far-left moonbat, but what often gets overlooked is that he’s also an a*****e.
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