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New Hampshire elections officials announced Friday they will conduct a hand recount of the state's Democratic and Republican presidential primaries at the request of two long shot presidential contenders.
Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who received less than 1.4 percent of the New Hampshire vote, and Republican Albert Howard of Michigan, who received about 44 votes statewide, requested the recount.
New Hampshire Secretary of State William Gardner said in a statement Friday that he plans to start the recount Jan. 16. Both candidates are required to pay a $2,000 fee for the recount.
“Mr. Howard and Mr. Kucinich have satisfied the requirements for initiating a statewide recount of the Republican and Democratic primary,” Gardner said.
Kucinich, a longtime Ohio congressman, called for the recount out of concern for the integrity of the process.
In New Hampshire, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., beat Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in the Democratic contest by just 3 percentage points. Going into Tuesday's primary contest, polls showed Obama leading significantly in the Granite State.
“This isn't about me, and it's not about Senator Clinton or Senator Obama,” Kucinich was quoted by FOX News as saying. ”It's about the integrity of the election process. Keep in mind that there are huge disparities between polls on the day of the election and the returns.”
Kucinich, who urged his supporters before last week's Iowa caucuses to support Obama as a second choice in case he was unable to attract the needed 15 percent support, said his request was not made out of support for the Illinois senator.
“Maybe it amounts to nothing. That's possible — fine,” Kucinich told FOX News. “We deserve to make sure that the election process is unchallenged, unquestioned.”
Outraged Kucinich Criticizes NBC For Removing Him From Debate []
1/12/2008 8:43:10 AM Long shot Democratic presidential contender Rep. Dennis Kucinich is criticizing NBC for disinviting him from an upcoming presidential debate in Nevada, scheduled ahead of the Silver State's Jan. 19 caucuses.
The Ohio congressman said Friday he is considering legal action against the network, which is owned by General Electric.
NBC originally invited Kucinich on Jan. 9, but rescinded the invitation on Friday after the network's Political Director Chuck Todd told the Kucinich campaign that NBC was "redoing" its participation criteria.
Kucinich had qualified to participate in debate by coming in fourth in a national poll with just 3 percent.
However, NBC reportedly changed its participation criteria to focus the debate on the three national front-runners: Sens. Hillary Clinton of New York, Barack Obama of Illinois and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards.
The Kucinich campaign chided NBC in a statement for what it called its "blatant disregard of the public interest in silencing public debate" that dissents with the views of NBC and its parent company.
“Corporate control of the media is one issue. Corporate media control of the information that is allowed to reach American citizens is much more dangerous, much more sinister, and much more un-American,” the campaign said.
The statement continued: “When ‘big media' exert their unbridled control over what Americans can see, hear, and read, then the Constitutional power and right of the citizens to vote is being vetoed by multi-billion corporations that want the votes to go their way.”
Kucinich filed an emergency complaint with the Federal Communications Commission after he was excluded from an ABC debate in New Hampshire last week.
[link to www.rttnews.com]
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