I have been notified by activists on the ground in the Granite State that NH voters are challenging the counting of any absentee ballots (mail-in ballots) in the primary for “failure to properly execute an affidavit.” This is happening all over the state.
The return envelope containing the absentee ballot has not been verified by affidavit as required by state law NH RSA 659:30.
State law NH RSA 659:50(b) requires that every moderator in the State must examine the inner return envelope to ensure that the affidavit was properly executed. If the affidavit was not properly executed pursuant to state law NH RSA 659:30, the moderator must not open the envelope and, under (NH RSA 659:53), must write across the envelope defective: “failed to properly execute an affidavit.
I have been notified that challenges to absentee ballots are happening in Windham, Merrimack, Derry, Amherst, Kensington, Manchester, Franklin Ward 2, Bath, Rochester Ward 1, Wakefield, and other towns.
Maybe yours?
We’ll update the story if we hear more about it, but the challenges will likely attract the other media. Let’s see how that goes down.
