Paula Johnson and the BLC

Are you available at 10am this Monday 11/25? 

If yes, please join Paula Johnson and her supporters at the archives as she challenges her recount.  Paula is a local fixture that needs no introduction in Nashua, but if you’re outside the city and need a refresher on who she is, click here.  There’s also non-Grok material on her, but the current matter at hand is that she was a Ward 5 rep candidate that had a recount following her loss.

Today I received an email from Paula that she’s challenging the recount, “but wait, there’s more,” as those late night UHF TV infomercials would say.  She’s challenging the process of how Bob Dion was allowed on the ballot and the way the absentee ballots were sent out a second time.  The issue was that Dion was not on the ballot when the first absentee ballot was sent out early, but the BLC allowed him on subsequent absentee ballots after he challenged their initial refusal.  Paula said this was election interference and needs to be resolved.  She wants people to come to the hearing and support her because the outcome will affect future elections.

And on a related note, today was the deadline for submitting House LSRs. However, there is time left for the senate. Election integrity watchdogs might want to attend and find inspiration for requests, even though Senator Gray isn’t that user friendly an Election Law chair. A year ago at this time and following ANOTHER Paula Johnson recount, one in which the NTU somehow produced some “emergency Dem votes,” ousting her from the school board, I requested a bill to move city wide recounts to the archives. He wasn’t very sympathetic, as noted in the email below, because it was a CITY recount.

Because we’re now dealing with a rep race, he can’t dismiss a plea for reform as easily.