The New Hampshire Recount is Bad News for Uncovering Vote Fraud

The Nader-led effort to recount New Hampshire may have been inspired by the best intentions, but unfortunately, the recount may badly undermine uncovering any new vote fraud.

The fact is, New Hampshire was never a great place for vote-fraud in this election. First optical scan ballots leave a paper trail, and thus it is very unlikely that massive fraud would be perpetrated with these, when it could be uncovered so easily by hand counts. Second, the huge vote-swings seen in some precincts between the 2000 Gore vote and the 2004 Kerry vote were never going to be the way vote fraud was done. These vote swings, while odd, were way too obvious.

Any real vote fraud would have to be very subtle and use electronic machines withouit a paper trail.

The major problem NOW is that the Republicans and Die-bold can point to the New Hampshire recount and say, "See? Everything is legitimate". This will have a very detrimental effect on other efforts to uncover vote fraud.

Mark my words.

And given Nader's history, you almost have to wonder if he did this intentionally.