The original Windham Incident was the inconsistency of the voting machines in Windham two years ago and that made national news. Version 2.0 was Ken Eyring finding that, AGAIN, absentee ballots were folded across the ovals again (for this election cycle). And now, there’s more than just more.
(reformatted, emphasis mine):
Windham state rep survives recount scare
CONCORD — State Rep. Julius Soti, R-Windham, survived a scare Tuesday after Windham town officials had amended their election results and had put his narrow victory at the polls in jeopardy. When the smoke cleared after a full recount Tuesday, however, Soti won by eight votes. In last week’s race, Soti edged Roger Fillio of Londonderry by three votes for a single nomination to a new House seat to represent both their hometowns
And so a recount was asked for. But again, WINDHAM??
…Fillio requested a recount and state election officials early Tuesday found a “corrected” summary page of results from Windham. The different numbers gave Soti 17 fewer votes and Fillio one less vote than they had been given in the town’s initial report to Secretary of State David Scanlan’s office last week. If the corrected summary proved to be correct and nothing else changed, then Soti would have lost the nomination to Fillio by 13 votes.
Tom McCarthy , a conservative activist, had made a Right-to-Know request for background materials town officials had used in coming up with their election totals.
“This just doesn’t make sense,” Murray said.
Tom McCarthy is actually Tom Murray, a friend of GraniteGrok.
Ultimately, the recount in Windham ended up giving Soti one more vote than he had received last week. The recount gave Soti five more votes than he had received from the machine count while Fillio picked up one vote in Londonderry.
…Bruce Breton, a fiscal conservative from Windham and close adviser to former President Donald Trump, pointed out that the summary page of the Democratic vote in Windham last Tuesday gave U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan and U.S. Annie Kuster more votes than ballots cast.
“We’re becoming a laughingstock,” Breton said.
Yep, great voting machine integrity, eh? And we are supposed to “trust the system”? Sorry, but this is four incidents in a given town. Two years ago, the absentee ballot, and now the screw-up with the summary page(s), and Dems getting more votes than voters? EGAD!
I’ve reached out to Tom MURRAY to get a copy of his Right To Know demand, and I’ll update this post when I get it.
(H/T: Union Leader)
