Concord – Democratic and Republican candidates who want a recount of the state Presidential Primary ballots have until tomorrow to submit a total of nearly $130,000 to cover the cost of the procedure.

Deputy Secretary of State David Scanlan said a Republican recount will cost $57,600 and a Democratic recount, with more votes cast, will cost $67,600.

Republican Albert Howard and Democrat Rep. Dennis Kucinich requested the recounts last week, saying they were suspicious of some machine-counted ballots.

The cost the state figured for the recount is based on a price of 24 cents a ballot, and a $2,000 fee.

Scanlan said “every indication now is that they are going to pay,” he said of Howard and Kucinich. He said Howard discussed the recount personally with him today, and that Secretary of State William Gardner talked with Kucinich. State law requires the recount to start by Wednesday, Scanlan said, so payment has to be made quickly.

With more than 525,000 ballots cast in a record-setting turnout, he said, “we’re looking at weeks” before the recount can be completed.

The recount will be conducted at the state archives building in Concord, where there are secure areas in which ballots can be locked away and stored.

Scanlan wrote each campaign to give them formal notice of the costs, and warning them that if the state incurred extra costs, they will be required to pay. If it costs less than the estimate, they will receive partial refunds.

Howard, of Ann Arbor, Mich., received a total of 44 votes in the Republican primary, and one write-in in the Democratic primary.

Kucinich, an Ohio congressman, received 3,901 in the Democratic primary and 13 write-ins.