NH Recount Uncovers Discrepancies -- Result of Human Error Officials Say | Threat Level from Wired.com

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A recount of the New Hampshire Democratic primary is underway in two counties in that state, and already the internet is abuzz over initial figures that show some clear discrepancies on optical-scan ballots cast in two polling locations in Hillsborough County, though officials say the discrepancies are the result of human error rather than machine error. As you recall, Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich and Republican presidential candidate Albert Howard asked the state to recount the primary ballots after a blogger posted a chart showing that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama received more votes than Hillary Clinton in regions where officials counted the paper ballots by hand than in regions where they were counted by optical-scan machines made by Diebold Election Systems and that Republican presidential candidate John McCain also received more votes than Mitt Romney in hand-counted districts over machine-counted ones. The implication was that Clinton and Romney somehow benefitted from the optical-scan machines.