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Dennis Kucinich demands a vote recount, because of the disparity of actual counted votes in the rural areas of New Hampshire (where Obama won, as polls suggested he would) and the more populous urban areas (where Hillary won, in spite of the polls that said she wouldn't). The difference in the two areas?

Voting machines. The rural areas were hand-counted; the urban districts used a mix of electronic devices, including the Premier Election Solution devices formerly known as Diebold (now known as Premier Election Solutions, having changed their name after their earlier problems with vote hackers).

Here are raw numbers from New Hampshire...Clinton Optical scan 91,717 52.95%
Obama Optical scan 81,495 47.05%

Clinton Hand-counted 20,889 47.05%
Obama Hand-counted 23,509 52.95%

Maybe the 'fraud' was just simply switching the names? Clinton for Obama. (How can you tell the difference, anyways? Both are Democrats, after all...)

From The Daily Mail...

Hillary Clinton faces recount over rival's 'vote rig' claims
Last updated at 21:45pm on 12th January 2008

Hillary Clinton is facing an embarrassing recount after her win in the New Hampshire primary - because a rival claims there were "serious and credible" concerns about the poll.

Fringe Democratic candidate Dennis Kucinich demanded the move after polling data revealed Mrs Clinton did much better in areas where votes were counted electronically than in those counted by hand.

Mrs Clinton revived her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination last Tuesday with her win over Barack Obama - despite trailing him in a dozen polls.

Also, from [gasp] NPR (just hold your damned nose!) we see Kucinich has to pay $2000 for the recount...

Scanlan said that New Hampshire's use of electronic voting machines is different than states like Ohio or Florida. The electronic machines are not linked, and all the electronic votes are backed by paper ballots.

"Perhaps the best thing that could happen for us is to have a recount to show the people that ... the votes that were cast on election day were accurately reflected in the results. And I have every confidence that will be the case."

Well and good. Perhaps we'll see vindication of the electronic balloting system (New Hampshire used paper backups)

Don't you hate it when Hillarity gets some bad press? It's so unusual...

I can't really see any negatives coming out of this.

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h/t Theo Spark