NH currently allows only one type of voting machine to be used in NH elections. Those voting machines use 1980s technology, and they are clearly at the end of their life.
NH’s Secretary of State, along with the Ballot Law Commission, have invited state legislators and members of the public to view a demonstration of four different voting machines this coming Wednesday, August 2, 2023 (Clear Ballot, Dominion Voting Systems, Election Systems & Software (“ES&S”), and VotingWorks).
“Attendees will be given the opportunity to feed ballots through each device and score and rate the devices against each other. The Secretary of State’s Office plans to compile the feedback and present it to the Ballot Law Commission. We encourage you to attend as your input will be invaluable.”
There will be two sessions in the Legislative Office Building, Second Floor, 33 North State Street, Concord, NH 03301. The first session will begin at 9 am, and the other at 1 pm. Each session is expected to be similar and last about 3.5 hours each. Consider attending and respectfully sharing your thoughts with Secretary of State Dave Scanlan and the members of the Ballot Law Commission.
You can register to attend by clicking here – but you need to register before 11:56pm tonight!
I appreciate the open and transparent process that the Secretary of State and the Ballot Law Commission are taking when seeking to replace NH’s nearly obsolete voting machines. But I respectfully disagree with their approach to evaluate potential replacement voting machines for New Hampshire.
To my knowledge, none of those in attendance who will represent NH’s interests on Wednesday (including myself) is qualified to properly evaluate and certify the security and accuracy of any voting machine. Not the Secretary of State nor anyone from his team, not anyone serving on the Ballot Law Commission, nor any state legislator or member of the public. None of the attendees will have the technical expertise that is necessary to certify which voting machines, if any, are safe and secure to count votes in NH elections.
I make that statement with the utmost respect for the Secretary of State, those who serve on the Ballot Law Commission, our State Legislators, and every member of the public who plans to attend.
There are very few people in the world who do not have a conflict of interest – AND – have the knowledge and expertise to perform a multitude of tests on electronic voting machines… but to my knowledge, none of those people are involved in the process of analyzing and certifying new voting machines for NH.
Professor J. Alex Halderman is an expert. He wrote a damning security analysis report over two years ago on the Dominion ImageCast X Ballot Marking Devices machines that Georgia is using. That report was so disturbing to the judge it was sealed from public view and just recently released.
Read the report before you vote below.
Now tell us what you think (three polls, open until Wed at midnight).
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