So Kucinich is challenging the New Hampshire vote. There maybe good reason to do so as Salon’s Farhad Manjou points out in a detailed review of the issue. Here’s the money quote:
But as many voting-reform experts have argued, manually counting the votes should be a routine in any race. There are logistical reasons why it would be impractical to hand count every vote in every election. But if we’re going to use machines — optical-scan machines that use paper ballots, that is; touch-screen machines everywhere ought to be burned — we should, at least, conduct a randomized, accountant-approved audit of ballots.
In other words, after every election, officials should randomly count some number of ballots to double-check the machines’ results. It is amazing that this is not a standard procedure across the country; it is a disgrace that election officials aren’t rushing to implement such procedures now.
