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Article: Recount, albeit limited, goes ahead ; Kucinich doesn't pay enough; GOP waiting
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- Concord Monitor
- Article date:
- January 16, 2008
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A hand recount of last week's Democratic primary votes will begin
this morning, after presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich met a
deadline to pay for a second tally, said Secretary of State Bill
Gardner.
But the recount will be a truncated one: Kucinich forked over
$27,000, less than half of the $69,600 the secretary of state's
office estimated a hand tally of all the Democratic votes would
cost. As a result, ballot-counters will begin with Hillsborough and
Rockingham counties, the two portions of the state Kucinich is most
interested in, Gardner said.
The fate of a requested Republican primary recount, meanwhile,
remained unclear last night.
Republican candidate Albert Howard failed to ...