The New Hampshire secretary of state’s office has begun recounting votes cast in the state’s recent Democratic primary.
Teams of examiners at the secretary of state’s archive division in Concord are manually recounting the votes cast in Hillsborough County during the Jan. 8 election. Staff at the secretary of state’s office said that it could take days to recount the votes from a single county, and that it is not yet clear whether all counties will be recounted.
Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich said he requested the recount after receiving multiple reports of apparent election irregularities.
Pollsters who had predicted an easy victory for Barack Obama in New Hampshire were surprised when Hillary Clinton won by a slim margin.
According to Secretary of State William M. Gardner, the last time New Hampshire did a statewide recount of the results of the presidential primary was in 1980.