Article: Recount, albeit limited, goes ahead ; Kucinich doesn't pay enough; GOP waiting

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 ...

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