Gaza City in darkness after power plant shutdown forced by border closing; NH recount uncovers human error, overcount of votes for some candidates...

21 January :: Lights out in Gaza City, as Palestinian authorities there are forced to shut down two turbines at Gaza power plant, due to Israel cutting off fuel supplies and other imports into Gaza Strip; officials there have said hospitals and emergency services will also be affected by the blackout; Israel says its effort is designed to slow and/or halt rocket attacks allegedly coming from Gaza, that it has not cut off the 70% of Gaza's electricity supply that comes from Israel itself... "Election integrity activists in New Hampshire are finding all kinds of problems with the electronic vote count in last week's presidential primary, after a first day of recounting the Democratic vote. But the problems so far have not changed the outcome of the race that Hillary Clinton won", according to a 17 January AlterNet report; The Concord Monitor is reporting that human error played a roll in erroneous counts conducted on the day of the primary vote: "A recount of ballots cast in Nashua's Ward 5 show that Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and Joe Biden received a total of 110 votes less than originally reported because of human error", though so far the ongoing recounts have not turned up any error or manipulation serious enough to cause a change in the placing of top candidates...