by Jason George
Remember New Hampshire?
The contest there might seem like years ago, but it was only about two weeks that Granite State voters went to the polls, with Rep Dennis Kucinich soon calling for a recount of those votes. Well that recount is now done – or at least has ended – on the Democratic side.
Yesterday, the NH secretary of state’s office stopped the Democratic recount because the state had gone through the $27,000 Kunicich had paid to finance the process. By that point, the state had recounted about 40 percent of the ballots and saw no major problems, except for handfuls of votes being off because of human error. You can see the comparison here.
The recount on the Republican side began this morning with no word on when the task will be completed. The recount on that side is being paid for by Republican candidate Albert Howard, who will need nothing short of an act of God to turn the 44 votes he received on Jan. 9 into a victory. According to his Web site though, this might not be a problem, as Howard has a line in to the Almighty:
“The Angel of the Lord told me in January of 1992 that Hillary Rodham Clinton and I would meet and be running against each other and that she would lose.”
Anyone in New Hampshire today can check out the recount, in person, at the State Archives and Records Management Building in Concord.