- The New Hampshire secretary of state will conduct hand recounts of Tuesday's Democratic and Republican primaries, reported Manchester, N.H., TV station WMUR.
Democratic candidate Dennis Kucinich and lesser-known Republican Albert Howard asked for the primary recounts.
Kucinich, who received 1.4 percent of the New Hampshire primary vote said that he is asking for the recount because of what he says are unexplained disparities between hand-counted ballots and machine-counted ballots and rumors online of counting errors.
I've been rolling my eyes at the conspiracy-theorists over this for the last couple of weeks. Every time there's a vote, some people can't help but freak-out about it. But, the numbers do look strange and people who know statistics far better than I think something's amiss. So, good: recount! Let's not let this one fester.