It looks like business as usual at the polls in New Hampshire, by which I mean we’ve got strange things happening. This story comes to us form the People’s Republic of Hopkinton.
I went to bring up my ballot and asked to put it in hand count, but despite a sign that said hand count, the slot was shut and unavailable. The clerk said, oh, just put it in here. We’re going to be counting them later. I said this is bizarre. I have never voted this way; this slot is supposed to be open and available. She says don’t worry.
My son came up a few minutes later, and she tried the same thing; however, this time, there was another person next to her, and she told my son to hold on. She got out a key to open the door access, and he put it in.
I said this isn’t legal; that slot can’t be blocked, and you made me put mine in the machine; the town clerk said oh, I didn’t know.
You could tell she was lying and getting nervous. The town clerk has a purple shirt on in the picture above; if you zoom in, the plastic tub alongside the machine is for people to put their ‘ballot pens’ in.
It’s so close to the machine that you would almost miss seeing the sign that says paper ballot. Also, why do they have ballot pens?
One more story from the Primary day election, from Merrimack. Two residents registered as Democrats were at the table to check in to vote. They wanted to take Republican ballots even though they were registered as Democrats. The clerk would not allow it and directed them to the Same-day registration table to “register” their complaint. I am told they were very unhappy – they clearly intended to meddle in the Republican primary but did not know they needed to change their party registration back in October to do that.
We don’t know what happened there, but Haley advocates will take votes from anyone so feel free to decide who to blame for that.
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