Nader in NH: hand counts

[Evan Daniel Ravitz <evan@xxxxxxxx>]

> 3) Nader-Camejo Goes Forward with Hand Recount
>     in New Hampshire

http://votenader.org/media_press/index.php?cid=406

November 12, 2004
For Further Information:
Kevin Zeese 202.265.4000

Washington, DC: The Nader-Camejo [Campaign] is going forward with a
hand recount in New Hampshire. The recount will begin in areas where
the vote favored President Bush in anomalous ways.

Nader-Camejo has requested a hand recount of the vote in New Hampshire
because of reports of votes favoring President Bush in towns that used
the Diebold AccuVote optical scan machines. The Nader-Camejo campaign
received more than 2,000 faxes from citizens concerned about the vote
count who urged the campaign to request a hand recount in New
Hampshire.

“A hand recount will either rule out the possibility of machine error
or show a discrepancy in the Diebold machine and the actual vote --
either way voters need to know,” said Nader. “Regardless of whether it
changes the electoral outcome, the Democrats should join us in this
effort and follow through on their repeated promises to make sure every
vote is counted -- in Ohio and other states.”

Voting-rights groups and others have identified trouble spots and
irregularities in several states meriting further investigation. The
Nader-Camejo campaign is working with voting rights activists on these
concerns.

“Turning over the counting of votes to corporations gives new meaning
to the term ‘corporate power,’” said Nader. “Three or four proprietary
corporations being given the authority to count the vote on trade
secreted software undermines the transparency of elections. With other
obstructions and massive corporate campaign cash, they threaten the
very foundation of our democracy – its elections.”

The Nader-Camejo campaign does not view the election to be over merely
because concession speeches, which have no legal effect, have been
delivered. Rather they are over when every vote is counted and legally
certified.
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Similar inexplicable results have been found in other states, including
Ohio. Nader has called on John Kerry to demand that every vote be
counted accurately. His campaign has remained strangely silent on the
matter.

This election has highlighted the need for electoral reform including
federal standards for federal offices and non-partisan administration
of the elections from ballot access, through debate participation and
to how the vote is cast and counted.