Gov. Chris Sununu ends New Hampshire’s state of emergency
Gov. Chris Sununu is ending New Hampshire’s state of emergency on Friday, citing a decline of COVID-19 infections and rising numbers of vaccinated people.
New Hampshire lawmakers ponder ban on teaching ‘divisive concepts’ on racism/sexism
Last week the GOP-controlled Senate approved a two-year $13.5 billion budget that included a provision prohibiting teaching about systemic racism and sexism in public schools and state-funded programs.
New Hampshire House rejects right to work proposal
A motion to pass Senate Bill 61, which called for barring unions from charging dues or fees to nonmembers for the costs of representation, failed by a vote of 199-175. A number of Republican lawmakers joined Democrats in tanking the proposal.
New Hampshire lawmakers seek protections for houses of worship, Sununu weighs allowing backyard hair salons
A proposal moving through the legislative process would prevent the state or local governments from shutting down religious services during future public health emergencies. Another bill seeks to eliminate the criminalizing of cosmetology without pay.
Windham election audit smoking gun?
I am not accusing Hursti of anything wrong or nefarious. But it is important to remember that it is the memory cards that make it easy to hack the machines to produce “fraudulent tape,” but “only on Tuesday evening,” so this is a big deal that warrants answers.
Public officials in New Hampshire knew ballot folds would skew results months prior to election
LHS CEO Jeff Silvestro knew for a fact that the creases in those mail-in ballots would create a misread or rejection. Every single politician involved in the meeting at issue knew it as well. And they did nothing.
New Hampshire weighs tax breaks to expand affordable housing
The legislation, which was approved by the state Senate last week, would allow local governments to offer tax breaks for housing developments anywhere within their borders, if a third or more of the units qualify as affordable housing.
Jovan Hutton Pulitzer asks if 28% of ballots not counted in Windham, NH is fraud or failure
He talks about folded ballots as part of the integrity of the process. Not machine failure but a failure of people tasked with ensuring election integrity missing or ignoring what appears to be the issue in Windham, and possibly most of New Hampshire, going back decades.
New Hampshire lawmakers seek to blunt impact of federal voting changes
The amendment’s primary sponsor, Rep. Barbara Griffin, R-Goffstown, called the pending federal bill — titled the For the People Act— a “direct assault on the state of New Hampshire and its ability to conduct elections.”
Philip Stark and Harri Hursti address massive ballot-folding glitch in tabulator machines, LHS prez conflict
“So the question here was, would the fold through [candidate] St. Laurent’s vote target be interpreted as a mark that would generate an overvote in that contest so that none of the four would be counted. And we found rates of generating overvotes from roughly 24 percent up to 72 percent,” auditor Philip Stark said.
Windham AccuVote machines fail to reproduce Election Day results in audit, questions about LHS abound
“If the auditors are finding corruption with the machines in Windham, that can give us a lot of leverage to expand this audit beyond Windham into the state of New Hampshire, because these machines were used in 85 percent of the state and provided by the same vendor.”
Windham forensic audit ‘tamper-proof’ security tape for ballots and vote tally sheets not tamper-proof
When the auditors and AG’s office show a lack of concern for properly applying the tamper-proof tape, it leads to justifiable questions by the public regarding the legitimacy of the audit process.