According to the Nashua, NH Telegraph it appears that Ralph Nader’s demand for a recount in New Hampshire will in fact occur:
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The earliest this recount could begin is Nov. 24, the day before Thanksgiving Day. That’s because the next two weeks are already packed with more than a dozen recounts of legislative races.
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Nader has alleged that “irregularities” in the optical scanning voting machines appear to have inflated the totals that Bush should have gotten in several key states.
Cities and towns in New Hampshire all either use paper ballots or these optical scan ballots manufactured by the Diebold Corp., whose chief executives contributed to Bush’s re-election.
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Nader campaign officials questioned Gardner this week about why Bush got a much higher percentage of the vote in southern New Hampshire communities against Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry than he did four years ago against Vice President Al Gore.
All eight communities that Nader has asked to be recounted first – Litchfield, Pelham, Sandown, Newton, a ward in Somersworth, Danville, Salem and four wards in Manchester – are within a half-hours drive from the Massachusetts border.
“They couldn’t understand why Senator Kerry could do so well in these communities in the primary and then under-perform compared to the 2000 election against Bush,” Gardner said.
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“We made every effort to accommodate the Nader campaign’s recount request, and as a result it will come to pass,” Fitch added.
😀 😎 :doze: :doze: :laugh:
although i don’t think Nader would have been a good choice for President, i am very glad to know that he has not left behind his roots as whistle-blower and general burr under the saddle of the corporate-political industry!
GO NADER!
I have this tinfoil-hat theory about NH: As the winner of a state can´t request for recount, rebs decided they would rig the Kerry-strong NH vote into a very close Kerry win. That way they could get plenty of votes into the popular-vote, without risk of Kerry asking for recount… They miscalculated a bit.
Yes I know it´s a ridiculous theory, but I like it!
Hey tep — that’s not so tinfoil-hat at all, in my view. I think it’s very likely that they did exactly what you suggested, in NH and in several other ‘blue’ states as well.
Four years ago they were saying "the popular vote means nothing" because they didn’t get it. This time it still means nothing but they ‘needed’ it because they wanted to be able to claim a ‘mandate’. It’s not a ridiculous theory at all, and I like it too!