NH Recount - 5th Ward Way Off After Hand Count

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Posted Fri, 01/18/2008 - 05:20 by Connecticut Man1
As the hand recount begins at Dennis Kucinich's request, The Brad Blog was going through recount results as they were coming in:
As mentioned earlier today, NH SoS Bill Gardner told WMUR in NH that "We did nine of the 12 wards in Manchester, and a lot of the votes were exactly the same...Some went up by a vote or two." He didn't, of course, note that a lot of the vote counts (most of them) were off by 5 or more.
Except for in the Ward 5, where the numbers get wacky...
And now, the rest of the numbers from the rest of the Manchester wards are coming on. And get a load of Ward 5:
Diebold
Result		Hand
Count
CLINTON683619
EDWARDS255217
OBAMA404365
All of the other candidates seem to have lost votes as well. No clue who received them instead...
From another of his posts, and after media reports that "a lot of the votes were exactly the same":
But many more vote counts were not at all the same, ranging anywhere from 5 to 8 votes off in regular cases, across almost all candidates. And before you say that's no big deal, we'll remind you that in 2004, had just 6 votes per precinct been registered in Ohio for John Kerry instead of George W. Bush, we'd have a different person sitting in the White House right now.
So far, this is not looking very pretty. Not in retrospect, nor in looking forward...

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by standingup - 01/18/2008 - 07:11
the counts aren't off for just one candidate as most of those I remember from recounts in 2004. I ran the percentages on the numbers from the recount of Ward 5 and the undercount is consistent across the candidates there. Clinton 9% Edwards 8.5% Obama 9%

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