Kathy Sullivan is a former NH State Democrat party chairman and a former Vice-Chair of the Democrat National Committee. It is safe to say that she is plugged into that count every vote narrative.
Given all the noise over the years from the Democrat Party about disenfranchising voters, you’d think Sullivan would WELCOME efforts to ensure votes cast by Democrats are rightfully and lawfully counted. Isn’t that how “the game” is supposed to be played? A lawful resident goes in and votes, and of course, it SHOULD be counted correctly.
Then why the NO vote, Kathy? Even Kevin Landrigan of the Union Leader gave the hearing a positive report (“spank’em when they’re wrong and thank’em when they’re right!).
Reformatted, emphasis mine:
Gargiulo claims that election officials made numerous errors in the handling, reporting and the counting of ballots in his District 24 election race. He stressed he wasn’t appealing his loss by more than 3,700 votes to Stratham Democratic Sen. Debra Altschiller, but wanted the Ballot Law Commission to see the analysis of his volunteers who spent 700 hours uncovering what he said were numerous problems. “This tells me we have a fundamental issue that nobody is addressing,” Gargiulo said after a one-hour presentation of his report from his lawyer, Corey MacDonald.
“If a town continues to fail, (it) needs to be penalized, maybe financially, maybe criminally but they need to be penalized.”
Here is the report:
Lou Ballat Irregularties Election Voting Presentation April 5, 2023
(hover over the file and the navigation bar will show up at the bottom of the page)
Landrigan pointed out what my video of the reporting laid out about all the mistakes and all the different kinds of mistakes that were made. Go read his enumeration of the tales, but I will provide a couple of conclusions from the NHBC members:
- Secretary Scanlan said the report contained a lot of “good constructive criticism.”
- Ballot Law Commission member David Campbell of Nashua, a former Democratic House member, praised the report’s approach. “This is very thorough and very thoughtful, and I think the commission appreciates the non-accusatory tone of it,” Campbell added.
Back to Kathy Sullivan.
Ah, but I’m a cynical kind of guy that, after over a decade and a half of listening to their nonsense, knows that she (and the rest of the Democrat “Disenfranchisement Decriers”) is playing a different kind of game. It isn’t that HER voters are getting disenfranchised (well, their actions may be doing it to some of their voters, but they don’t care). It is that their Opposition voters should be disenfranchised by whatever means. Sorry / not sorry, but failure points can be used for “opportunities.”
My analogy for when I was writing software still stands – 20% of time and effort to achieve the purpose but 80% spent on defending against stupid people and people with bad intentions. Listening to the report findings, there were certainly a lot of exploits of the system (whether by stupidity, laziness, or deliberate is beyond my ken – they just were there) found by the volunteers.
Remember, it isn’t WHO votes. It’s who COUNTS the votes. What the report showed is that there were numerous failure points from the time that the ballots entered the machine (some done by voters themselves) through to the recount.
So, she voted NO to sending the findings onward to the AG and SecState. One would think that a reasonable person, one that treasures accurate, reproducible, and transparent results, would be happy to have those two offices “plug the holes” and monitor to see that any “upgrades” were meticulously followed.
Nope, not Kathy Sullivan, and she said so herself – a one-word answer: “NO.”
One only has to ask her a one-word question: “Why?” If I were to ask that of her, she’d run away (like she did during the TEA Party movement when I caught her on the field and approached her with my then-new FlipCam to ask her what she thought about TEA Partiers. I got the same one-word answer then as her Ballot Commission answer:
NO.
‘Nuff said. My interpretation is that she, as a proxy for the Democrat Party, LIKE all those failure points and is RATHER steamed that some “nobodies that should have stayed out of her business” discovered them with Bright Flashlights.
And that last quote from Lou about punishment for those involved in the ballot process who refuse to mend their ways? I think that was the point that she knew the jig was up.
I agree with Lou – just look what happened when (Belknap County) NH State Rep Mike Bordes voted to repeal any criminal charges stemming from performing an abortion after 24 weeks. Without the penalties, the entire bill has been neutered, and its purpose nullified. Didn’t have to repeal the entire bill, just the part that punishes wrongdoers. Just think of San Francisco and all the “legal” (less than $900/incident) shoplifting.
No punishment means that there is nothing to fear for consequences. Decisions SHOULD have consequences. Removing consequences such as these create Lawlessness.
Thanks, Kathy!
