Hillary Clinton's victory celebrations in New Hampshire were short lived after Internet bloggers uncovered that the former first lady did better in precincts where the votes were counted by the much maligned Diebold voting machines, whereas in precincts where votes were hand counted, her rival Barack Obama was the clear winner.
Illinois Senator vying to become the first black President of the United States has already conceded victory and congratulated Clinton, but the blogosphere is buzzing with allegations of vote fraud directed at the Clinton camp.
Obama garnered 38.7% of the hand counted votes to Clinton's 36.2%, but Diebold machines gave Clinton 40.7% of the vote against Obama's 36.2%.
Bloggers have highlighted the fact that the candidate placed second from each method got exactly 36.2% of the vote.
They also point out that ppinion polls before the election placed Obama firmly in front in the Democrat race, with a 13 percentage point lead over Clinton.
81% of New Hampshire ballots were counted in secrecy by Diebold Election Systems, which was recently renamed Premier.
The ethical hacker Harri Hursti, who demonstrated how easy it was to crack Diebold optical scans in Leon County, Florida, testifying on September 19 before the New Hampshire legislature explaining significant vulnerabilities requiring urgent mitigations.
Election watchdog BlackBoxVoting.org provided video evidence showing that the company programming the machines, LHS Associates, and the company's president John Silver trying to discredit Hursti during the hearing.
New Hampshire used Diebold version 1.94w optical scan machines, the same model that was successfully cracked by Hursti.
But Clinton supporters dismissed the allegations pointing out that the Diebold machines were mostly used in urban areas, and that urban women were more likely to want to see a women becoming the President of the United States for the first time in history.
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