Pelham NH Poll Worker Hands School Ballot to Voter that is Already Filled Out! - Granite Grok

Pelham NH Poll Worker Hands School Ballot to Voter that is Already Filled Out!

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This might be a first, at least for us. We have a report from a voter at a local election in Pelham, New Hampshire. A week ago Tuesday, he showed up to vote, was handed his ballots, and one of them was already filled out.

 

Pelhma School ballot already filled out

 

I can’t begin to express how completely bizarre this is. There is no reasonable explanation for how completed ballots run through the dreaded machine would have ended up on the other side of the room with the ‘Blank’ ballots for folks who have yet to vote.

None.

No excuse. Sorry, apparently, there is an excuse. Further down the thread, we got this from someone who was (I am guessing) working the polling station.

 

Town response to marked ballots

 

Not immediately. We have no idea how many were handed out (without anyone noticing they were complete?) before the issue was corrected.

There are, by the way, 57 pdf pages of comments on this from the “Pelham NH really uncensored Facebook group.” I did censor these two out of habit, but you are welcome to scroll through them all here. Reminder – 57 pages.

There is a lot of back and forth, but at the end of the day, the question is this.

All ballots need to be secured whether completed or not. But how – just 16 months after a tumultuous election with significant voter concern over the chain of custody (and a herd of other suspicious actions and behaviors) does the Town of Pelham screw this up, like this, during what was another contentious election season, especially over School Board positions.

I can tell you that the NH AG and SOS will NOT find anything that was out of order. Maybe an oversight.

It is an oversight by local media. I do not see any stories about this despite the whirlwind occurring in this Facebook Group.

We know it happened.

So, what’s next?

You might want to reach out to the secretary of state, and take notes.

 

 

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