Pre-elections in the USA, democrats and republicans are voting what candidate should run for president. Currently we are just in the stage of pre-elections and already the angry mobs are prowling the streets shouting out for a recount. Now that’s what I love about the elections in the USA. Count and recount, where is my pocket calculator?

The big difference between the paper votes and the machine votes in New Hampshire give raise to doubt against the voting machines. Are they manipulated? In Holland we already have a movement against voting machines. Or can it be that the areas that have to resort to paper voting have a typical bias towards a certain candidate? That is actually the big question. The voting machines used in New Hampshire are actually just scanners that automatically count the ballots marked by the voter. So a manual recount is possible. The recount is going to happen since most candidates, democrats and republicans, are picking up the rumors heard around the states and the internet. More info on the recount can be found here in this Wired article. Looking forward to this. I’m very curious if the recount yields the same results.

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