A Full Blow New Hampshire Recount

In the wake of the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries with Michigan’s fast approaching, the media has been quick to pass judgment on winners. Predictions based on all of 6% of the primaries being complete. Or are they?

As of this afternoon, a press release by William M. Gardner, Secretary of State of New Hampshire, has issued a statewide recount for both parties on behalf of Albert Howard and Dennis Kucinich. Both candidates must pay the costs of the recount due to the stipulation of needing a one percent difference of the winner (RSA 660:6). Howard is receiving help from a grassroots source, which I shall keep private, which paid the costs of airfare and estimated $65,000 for the recount fee.

The recount will do little for both Howard and Kucinich. This development, in fact, bodes well for Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, possibly leading to vindication for Ron Paul.

Whether or not the recount helps any particular candidate, the American people are the winners from today’s recount, due to commence on Wednesday, January 16th. An election of any scale is seriously in ruins if any doubt can be cast on legitimacy. Democracy will be tested. Foul play may surface in some distant future. Only time will tell but as Americans, we should all keep an open eye to the developments of this story.

-- Topher Lloyd