The Town of Windham is bad at elections. Before the 2020 Windham Incident, we don’t know how bad, but since then, they’ve failed at every opportunity to ensure election integrity. This required the Secretary of State to provide election monitors, which hasn’t done much good, and the most recent report on Windham’s progress is proof.
The Secretary of State’s Office issued an 18-page report on the issues during the most recent November elections, and they are numerous, but the conclusion of the report is that things were better than they’ve been in the past. Were they?
I don’t suppose we should be surprised. New Hampshire’s Secretary of State’s Office has not had glowing reviews on these pages in recent years or months, so the absence of the single biggest issue with the November election in Windham isn’t even mentioned in the report.
197 ballots are still missing, and this is not mentioned anywhere in the 18-page report.
We reported on the discrepancy after the election.
The town says it has 10,338 official ballots cast by voters, but the sum of all votes is only 10,141.
The issue is both known and obvious, but we can’t explain why the State’s observers didn’t find a reason to mention it in their review. Windham has problems and needs work, mostly training, but things were better.
Tell that to the 197 voters who may not have counted their ballots.
