{"id":954,"date":"2004-11-15T12:28:51","date_gmt":"2004-11-15T16:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=954"},"modified":"2004-11-15T12:28:51","modified_gmt":"2004-11-15T16:28:51","slug":"naders-demand-for-nh-recount-appears-to-be-moving-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=954","title":{"rendered":"Nader&#8217;s Demand for NH Recount Appears to be Moving Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nashuatelegraph.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20041113\/NEWS02\/111130045\/-1\/news02\" target=\"_blank\">According to the Nashua, NH <i>Telegraph<\/i><\/a> it appears that Ralph Nader&#8217;s demand for a recount in New Hampshire will in fact occur:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Nader has initially asked state election officials to count ballots in eight communities, including Litchfield and Pelham, but he has the right to a statewide recount as long as he pays the entire cost, Secretary of State Bill Gardner said.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe earliest this recount could begin is Nov. 24, the day before Thanksgiving Day. That&#8217;s because the next two weeks are already packed with more than a dozen recounts of legislative races.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nNader has alleged that \u201cirregularities&#8221; in the optical scanning voting machines appear to have inflated the totals that Bush should have gotten in several key states.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s re-election.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nNader 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.<\/p>\n<p>All eight communities that Nader has asked to be recounted first &#8211; Litchfield, Pelham, Sandown, Newton, a ward in Somersworth, Danville, Salem and four wards in Manchester &#8211; are within a half-hours drive from the Massachusetts border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey couldn&#8217;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,&#8221; Gardner said.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n\u201cWe made every effort to accommodate the Nader campaign&#8217;s recount request, and as a result it will come to pass,&#8221; Fitch added.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Nashua, NH Telegraph it appears that Ralph Nader&#8217;s demand for a recount in New Hampshire will in fact occur: Nader has initially asked state election officials to count ballots in eight communities, including Litchfield and Pelham, but he has the right to a statewide recount as long as he pays the entire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=954"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}