Denny K asks for NH recount
Dennis Kucinich announced today in a press release that he’s demanding for the New Hampshire recount–not because it would make any difference, he admits, but basically just for the hell of it:
Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, the most outspoken advocate in the Presidential field and in Congress for election integrity, paper-ballot elections, and campaign finance reform, has sent a letter to the New Hampshire Secretary of State asking for a recount of Tuesday’s election because of “unexplained disparities between hand-counted ballots and machine-counted ballots.”
“I am not making this request in the expectation that a recount will significantly affect the number of votes that were cast on my behalf,” Kucinich stressed in a letter to Secretary of State William M. Gardner. But, “Serious and credible reports, allegations, and rumors have surfaced in the past few days…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 – not just in New Hampshire, but in every other state that conducts a primary election.”
He added, “Ever since the 2000 election – and even before – the American people have been losing faith in the belief that their votes were actually counted. This recount isn’t about who won 39% of 36% or even 1%. It’s about establishing whether 100% of the voters had 100% of their votes counted exactly the way they cast them.”
Kucinich, who drew about 1.4% of the New Hampshire Democratic primary vote, wrote, “This is not about my candidacy or any other individual candidacy. It is about the integrity of the election process.” No other Democratic candidate, he noted, has stepped forward to question or pursue the claims being made.
Doesn’t he have anything better to do?
See what others have said
Note from Michelle: This section is for comments from michellemalkin.com's community of registered readers. Please don't assume that I agree with or endorse any particular comment just because I let it stand. A reminder: Anyone who fails to comply with my terms of use may lose his or her posting privilege.
Trackbacks
- The Moderate Voice » Domestic and international news analysis, irreverent comments, original reporting, and popular culture features from across the political spectrum.
- Plumb Bob Blog » Sawing the Limb Where They’re Sitting
- Ed Driscoll.com
Comments
You must be logged in to post a comment.
Categories: Dennis Kucinich, Voter fraud
Pundit & Pundette
» States in dire straits
Sister Toldjah
» Josh Marshall: Sarah Palin is “probably mentally unstable”Sister Toldjah
» A resolution honoring Michael Jackson? Are you kidding me?Stop The ACLU
» Radical Obama: Anti-American MilitarismRiehl World View
» Pali-mania Strikes The Right Blogosphere!Confederate Yankee
» "The Obama Administration is the Most Fiscally Irresponsible in the History of the U.S."
Well, that’s what we do back on Pluto! Just because.
Maybe this will put to rest some of the conspiracy theories going around.
Wow, where was he when my absentee ballot, along with my husband’s, was being blocked by the Goreacle?
“We have no proof, but it’s the seriousness of the allegations…”
He’s from the government and he’s here to help…that’s all you need to know!
“Serious and credible… rumors”.
Good grief… he is the Democrat’s Ron Paul… only slightly creepier.
Jim C
Apparently the aliens from @#%$*&@*^#673 1/2 didn’t land in time to vote.
Disenfranchised aliens. That’s a new one TXRose.
Ya know, on a slightly serious note, maybe an actual recount could shed some light on whether or not The Lizard Queen got any repeat voters.
It’s be a hoot if the leftists beat themselves.
It worked for that one politico in Washington didn’t it. I mean it took three recounts but she eventually beat her GOP opponent.
We ought to count the real hair strands in this idiot’s head. Who votes for this ass? Are they even more radical? This guy could give Chavez 2 aces and still win the Hate America Hand.
Well, it’s nice to know that it’s not just the Republicans the Democrats don’t trust…don’t they always seem to have these conspiracy/trust issues?
As a late middle aged white woman, I want them to recount because me and my peers are being used as scapegoats. I find it a lot easier to believe that New Hampshire political operatives committed fraud on behalf of Hillary Clinton than I do that women like me are secretive racists or that we live to spite the media by lying to polltakers or that we’d change our votes because a politician had tears in her eyes.
And when has anyone ever changed their vote because they wanted to prolong the nominating contest? Thats the most idiotic explanation of all.
Fraud is a lot more likely than these fantasies and I don’t want to be looked at and suspected of being a super secret real problem for black people. We 50+ year old white women are not like that and its an ugly smear that the media is pushing about us.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he goes from 1.4% to 1.382% after the recount.
As representative of the Glactic counsel of the planet Glebsnor, I have one thing to say. Dennis please shut up.
Dennis Kucinich is the pygmy brother of Kim Il Jong.
The way to defeat an absurdity is to take it seriously (another delicious insight from the great A. Rand). I am hereby going Mr. K. one better and asking for one, two, three, many recounts, to be handled by as many different commissions, groups, lawyers, whatever as can be found. And since we are talking Democrats here, you know there will be a lot of them. With luck they will be so busy, that coupled with their impeachment fantasies, they will have little time left to campaign. The enemy is powerful; it is also incredibly arrogant. So powerful and arrogant, it can be encouraged to beat itself.
________________
On a heavier note, if the rest of the Republican gang is afraid to take on McCain, it may well be over. Who would have thought but a few weeks ago that this man would be on the verge of taking the prize? Perhaps crazy, dangerous times, call for a crazy, dangerous candidate. So be it. McCain might even scare mad Dr. A or even Putin. That might make it all worthwhile.
is that Bat Boy?
Kucinich’s problem may be a lack of oxygen. Pluto is in the outward bound part of its orbit, and it’s probably getting hard to breathe out there, what with the atmosphere freezing and all.
Look, we all know Dennis is a Menace…..but…to me he’s a weenie because of his record, agenda and personality not because of the fact that he said he saw a UFO. I’ve seen several. Anybody got a problem with that? /sarc That doesn’t necessarily mean I think they came from outer-space.
Does that make me a left-wing nutjob or a conspiracy theorist? No it does not. I have a lot of the same opinions as most of you but I also have common sense. With 3 to 4 hundred billion suns in our galaxy alone…and billions upon billions of galaxies in the visible universe…to think we are all alone is a tad naive. So, in that aspect I guess I’m kind of sticking up for Dennis here huh? Man, I feel dirty now.
MM, I don’t mean to divert from the subject matter but I had to get that off of my chest. But yea…Dennis is a weenie.
Really? From where? From who? Who are these “credible” people that brought him tese reports of said “Serious and credible reports, allegations, and rumors”?
No one else has heard peep one about these things. Not ons single candidate other than Congressman Half-Pint has heard such “rumors”.
Could it be that he received a special message from outer space, with the Mother Ship, always keeping a close eye on what we here in America are doing, sending him a coded message late at night while he listened to Art Bell?
Then again, I guess it wouldn’t be an election if some whiney cry-baby loser didn’t scream “foul” when he lost. Next step…taking it to the courts and then complaining about how the courts have to get involved.
If only there was a cure for Short Man’s Syndrome. Thank God I’m 6′2″ with nothing to prove.
Am I the only person who thinks this guy looks like a miniture W.C.Fields?
Bet he hates kids too.
Oh Denny, the mothership is calling.
If he feels so strongly about it, maybe he can personally go count them.
Well.. if it has to happen, which it probably will sooner or later, better sooner than later. If everything pans out ok, then that will garner some much-needed faith in the process, and at the same time take the wind out of the sails of the conspiracy nuts. Certainly easier to recount NH now while the time is available to do so.
I have this feeling that no matter who wins the November election, the loser will demand recounts. This will be especially true if the liberals lose. They will tie it up for weeks, using all the race/culture cards they can. Lord help us if it ended up in the House. Talk about a “corrupt bargain”…
I agree but having read Relativity for dummies or something like that, I don’t believe it’s possible for those aliens to have traveled here from there. That there is life on other planets is a statistical probability. That they could have made the trip to earth is highly unlikely.
Recounting and double checking should be being done anyway if it already isnt, I mean it makes sense to me that New Hampshire and all other states would be double and triple checking they’re collective systems to make sure everything is working properely.
“Count every vote; every vote counts!” is just codespeak for Democratic Voting Fraud.
Though I suppose if you think about it, we’re dealing with the Clintons here. Vote fraud is hardly a stretch for their “at any cost” mentality.
Granted, it isn’t going to do him any GOOD, but hey, you do what you gotta do in the merry ol’ land of OZ I suppose…
I understand that there has been a lot of talk among the KosKids, and there has been a bit of speculation about Hillary’s campaign bringing in a lot of NJ supporters on the conservative blogs.
Hey, I think DK is a nut, but he could be right, does anyone want to claim that vote fraud is rare where Democrats are concerned?
It appears that there is a Democratic strategy to contest elections that they lose. It is a little surprising that they are contesting elections between themselves, but it’s sort of like being hoisted on your own petard, as they say.
We had a city election recently and the losing Democrat for a council seat is contesting, claiming the machines were not working correctly for everyone (I assume he means they weren’t working for the people voting for him, however). A party policy????? Probably.
Hey, Denny! Here’s your explanation for the disparities between hand-counted ballots and machine-counted ballots: People make mistakes.
Geez, you’d think someone whose core constituency is robots would realize this.
Okay. That is scary, Jim - “creepier” than Ron Paul. I think I feel my skin crawling.
What drugs is Kucinich on?
Or, if he is not on any, perhaps he should be.
chsw
Surveyor…I’m sure that quite a few of us have seen UFOs. It just seems to fit with
DK’s record and personality to tweak him about having seen one. I keep expecting to see people actually wearing tin foil hats while
listening to him speak. I think they might find that HRC really didn’t win NH if
there is a recount. Now that would be a hoot since she is being called the
comeback kid and likened to Slick when he came back to get second in NH.
Surveyor…I’m sure that quite a few of us have seen UFOs. It just seems to fit with
DK’s record and personality to tweak him about having seen one. I keep expecting to see people actually wearing tin foil hats while
listening to him speak. I think they might find that HRC really didn’t win NH if
there is a recount. Now that would be a hoot since she is being called the
comeback kid and likened to Slick when he came back to get second in NH.
sorry..double clicked
jungatheart said:
Problem is…Relativity for dummies was composed by…well…not dummies but babies in the realm of physics. We have our known physics and I’m sure that if another civilization is just 1,000 years ahead of us in technology…they have figured out a few more things then we have and could quite probably make that trip pretty lickity-split if they wanted too. Don’t think Einstein…think QUANTUM…that’s where it’s at. Remember, consensus in the 1800’s would have said it was highly unlikely we would ever get to the moon but we did.
TXRose said:
I agree. By all means Dennis…count…re-count and count again for crying out loud!
Man, I thought for sure I was going to get much more grief about the UFO stuff…but the times…they are a changin’.
Surveyor
Problem is I don’t think I’d like to ride in a spaceship the size of an electron. I get claustrophobic.
jungatheart
that’s a good one!