GrokTALK!: Why Can’t We Have Clean Elections?

This week, on GrokTALK!, we look a little deeper into the problem of dirty voter rolls (inspired by my Friday, May 1st, Morning Update) at the issue of ballot chain of custody and how New Hampshire can’t have a clean election even if we want them.

00:00 Introduction and Context of Election Issues in New Hampshire
01:20 History of Voter Fraud and Election Manipulation
02:46 Federal and State Laws on Voter Data Privacy
04:40 Problems with Ballot Storage and Chain of Custody
05:33 Legal Challenges and Local Election Responsibilities
07:30 Issues with Voter Roll Maintenance and Out-of-State Voters
08:47 Impact of Dirty Elections on Local Communities
10:21 Solutions and Recommendations for Election Security
12:01 The Role of Citizens and Voters in Election Integrity
13:05 Conclusion: The Urgent Need for Election Reform

“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.” – Gustav Mahler

Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the embedded video does not load.

Links:

  • https://granitegrok.com/new-england/nh/2024/09/sec-of-states-office-its-the-towns-problem-if-ballots-not-secured
  • https://granitegrok.com/blog/2021/05/why-was-ann-edwards-from-the-nh-ag-with-the-secured-windham-ballots-at-1115-pm-wed-night
  • Londonderry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX7q3CHUcew&t=3s
  • Nashua: https://rumble.com/v1gcr7j-voter-fraud-evidence-testimony-nashua-nh-81522.html
  • Election law committee (Containers): https://www.youtube.com/live/N2yNDMPwv0E
  • Blue tubs: https://www.globalindustrial.com/p/distribution-container-with-hinged-lid-24-1-2x15x13-3-4-blue?srsltid=AfmBOop-Df0rEmXE8xVDWjc9PjCqY7do7NgfwjsjrzXhM2KKithJctP99EY

Rranscript[lightly edited]:

The date is May 4th, 2026. And welcome to another edition of Grok Talk brought to you by granitegrok.com and Grok Media LLC. Visit granitegrok.com daily. Make sure you donate to support everything we do. Truly independent media. It’s a very rare thing. Today, we’re gonna kind of piggyback off my morning update from Friday, which was about dirty voter rolls and how the Trump DOJ is attempting to clean them up and how my state, not just my state, but in the case of my state, I have extensive documentation and details on just how dirty our voter rolls are.

And I’ve recently been given some more information to help expand on what we talked about on Friday. We’re also going to share some of that morning update as well. We’re going to talk about ballot integrity, chain of custody, and those dirty voter rolls when Grok Talk continues in less than 60 seconds.

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All right, we’re back. History tells us, and go to GraniteGrok.com, look up voter fraud, election fraud, vote fraud, ballot fraud, ballot security, all kinds of things. You will find 1000s of articles, as I alluded to on Friday, about the problem. voter nests, out-of-state voters, out-of-state college students voting…

New Hampshire may have never had clean elections, but it hasn’t had them for as long as I’ve been doing that. And this is close to two decades. And that’s on purpose. Going back to the early days of my blogging experience, a few years before, the Democrat party had controlled the state, and they went out of their way to make it as difficult as possible to identify and track down fraudulent voters because they diluted the information on the registration cards.

It’s been a bipartisan effort, even though Republicans have attempted at least somewhat to try and solve the issue, and the latest effort to require a state-issued ID has loopholes in it.

They’re gonna figure out a way to get those kids to vote in our elections. And there still isn’t a hell of a lot we can do about it. It’s getting better. I’m a big fan of incrementalism. Sometimes you have to just push a little bit further forward every single session until you land where you want to.

But while we’re doing that, our elections aren’t clean.

As I mentioned on Friday, there’s a lawsuit. New Hampshire doesn’t want to give up its voter rolls because it says that the federal government is asking for too much personal information, which includes things the federal government probably already has, like the last four digits of your Social Security number. The federal government has your entire Social Security number. They want your state driver’s license number and your address. Now your address is publicly available on the voter checklists. Anybody can see it. So is most of the other information. The date of birth is frequently wrong. So it really doesn’t matter if you’re coughing that up to the feds, who, as I mentioned, already have it. The IRS has it.

Anyway, I get why they don’t want to give it up. And I get the idea that it’s a privacy issue. I don’t want the federal government having more information about me than I think it really needs. But what we’re protecting is stealing elections. And it’s happening.

And we’re going to show you how it’s happening. But before we do that, we’re going to talk about ballot security. We spent a lot of time in 2024, thanks to a group of hardworking activists who’ve been at this for a very long time, trying to clean up voter rolls it isn’t a conspiracy. There are names on those checklists that don’t belong there. And somehow, somebody is voting for those people. And that makes it an illegal vote, which means a real vote is being erased, and it’s a problem. So if we go back to 2024, this would be September, before the federal elections in 2024, they were working diligently to try to resolve the problem of the chain of custody.

So we have a lot of articles on it. Please go to granitegrok.com and look them up. But basically, activists discovered that neither the procedure for taping up boxes of completed ballots for storage nor the tape meant to provide proof of tampering worked. They went through a lot of time and effort and we eventually got them to pick a new tape, which would be better. But then they kind of stuck to the old procedure, making it pretty much useless. But the really big problem came when we tried to figure out who was responsible. As it turns out, the attorney general’s office says it’s not their problem.

It’s the town’s problem. The town is responsible. They have to secure the ballots. It’s a local election thing. The AG won’t do anything unless you want to bring a suit against the town, which means you have to invest your time and money to sue the town for mishandling ballots, which basically means almost nobody’s ever going to do that.

And a lot of the problem can be summed up here.

The Attorney General’s office enforces the election laws and serves the Secretary of State as legal counsel. However, if a local election official is sued, the local election official’s town or city legal counsel will represent the official. If disagreement exists as to the proper procedure, consult with your jurisdiction’s local legal counsel. So what does that mean? The Secretary of State is not in charge of your local elections. Moderators and town clerks are responsible.

At the same time, town officials are supposed to answer to the Secretary of State on the question of elections, ballot integrity, chain of custody, how they’re conducted, all of it. So towns instructed by the Secretary of State to do things that could get them sued, which has happened, result in the Secretary of State saying, sorry, that’s your problem.

The Attorney General will defend the Secretary of State against the town, which is only just doing what they were told. And what they are told results in unclean elections. Further, we have multiple accounts of issues related to the chain of custody and ballot integrity. And by that, I mean how they’re stored, who has access. It’s ugly. There’s just no excuse for the abuse. The state has literally created this doom loop, where it can tell towns to do things that will get it sued

If you remember the Windham incident, where we had to have ballots secured for a special recount, for some mysterious reason, a member of the Secretary of State was videotaped in the room late at night, just before midnight, with the secured ballots. You can see the state trooper in the room with her, and nobody could explain what she was doing there.

Who are you supposed to sue?

And when you do sue, what happens? Almost absolutely nothing. We’ve talked about Daniel Richard. He went through the entire legal process per the Constitution and state statute to try to address a problem with voter law and election integrity. And he got the runaround for four or five years and produced absolutely nothing as a result. The state, every branch of government, wanted nothing to do with fixing the problem, and they still don’t.

Case in point: dirty voter rolls.

The most recent issue that’s come to light yet again, thanks to the situation with the Trump DOJ wanting to look at the voter lists to make sure they’re clean, Check this out.

I think the arrogant prick you hear in the background is former town manager Michael Malaguti. If you search him on GraniteGrok you’ll find quite a bit of interesting information as well, and you should feel free to do that. But we have yet another example, this one from Nashua.

As you can tell from her testimony, no matter what you do, you can’t get anybody in positions of authority with the so-called power to make change, to do anything. They don’t ask questions. They don’t make changes.

Problems with differences in machine and hands counting continue. Problems with voters on checklists who don’t live in the state anymore. Voting in New Hampshire, somehow still a problem. Imagine a thousand votes in an election where a handful of votes makes a difference. But if you’re talking about a town election, you’re talking about circumstances where you’re lucky if you get 25 % of registered voters to show up.

One thousand votes one way or another makes a huge difference in how much your property taxes go up, how much more spending there is, who gets elected to the school board in the town council or the town select board. It’s a significant problem. In Londonderry we saw, even if it’s just 90 votes, 90 votes changes a seat. In towns like those in New Hampshire, small numbers of people make a significant difference.

If you are not cleaning up your voter rolls, if you are not actively removing people who are no longer in town, you are going to have dirty elections. You are going to have an election integrity problem. People who would otherwise vote probably against the establishment that’s protecting this garbage and this fraud would kick them out of office. You’d have a completely different landscape, but they don’t bother voting because why would they?

Nobody in charge gives a shit. And when somebody in DC says, hey, we think your voter rolls might be dirty, can we just take a look? And they fight you tooth and nail to prevent you? That’s a little suspicious.

So a few more things before I end this hopefully not too too long edition of Grok Talk. I’m gonna play the AM update from Friday just so you can see how this all started, at least this week. And then I’m gonna share a little clip of a video about the new boxes that the Secretary of State is suggesting we use to secure ballots to address the problem of chain of custody and ballot security. So here’s Friday’s morning update.

And finally, the question about security. We know they don’t want to clean the voter rolls. We know they don’t want to do the work to remove people who have left the state. As you’ve just heard,

66,000 names of people who left the state who are still on the checklists, that’s at a minimum. And these are people whose names are being used to vote in a state they no longer live in. Something illegal is going on in the state of New Hampshire is trying to hide it. As for ballot integrity, take a look at this.

I have a lot of experience with these containers. I used to work for UPS. I’ve seen them a lot. I also worked for a company that used them to move product and materials to trade shows. So I know exactly how they work. And you absolutely can, if they are not secured on both ends, slip things inside.

Here’s a clip from a manufacturer that makes those to give you an idea of how they work if you’re not familiar.

This particular version looks a little bit more secure than the kind i’ve typically seen in the past. But again, you can slide stuff inside the end. And I don’t know for certain which containers the Secretary of State has suggested using. I can tell you with certainty that the silence that followed Senator Gray’s observation that he could slide things into a sealed container is the same kind of silence that you’re going to get.

when that actually happens. Is New Hampshire going to be forced to turn over its voter rolls to the DOJ? Five or six states have already fought successfully to prevent it. I have a really good feeling, actually, it’s a really bad feeling, that New Hampshire will probably not have to cough theirs up either.

But the voters and citizens of New Hampshire who want their votes to actually count need to do more. The legislative session is almost over. I don’t think you’re going to get anything done this session or before the midterms. And your elections will not be clean. They will be dirty.

Nobody seems to want to fix this problem. They don’t even want to talk about it. If you bring it up, you’re a conspiracy theorist. And yet, every time we turn around, there is nothing but more and more evidence that that’s the point, to have dirty elections. And you have to ask why. Who’s advantaged by that?

Democrats universally make it easier for anybody to vote. They make it harder for you to find fraud, and they fight you when you attempt to prove it. That’s it for this week. Not such happy news, but it’s reality. It’s the truth. It’s where we are. Has it gotten a little better in New Hampshire? An itty bitty tiny bit, but nowhere near enough, so we will not have clean elections in 2026.

we will not have clean voter rolls. And you’re just gonna have to live with that. The solution is to get at least 10 people you know, and each of them to get 10 people they know, to show up and vote, to keep the Democrats and anybody else who is against clean elections from winning public office. See you next week.


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    Steve is a long-time New Hampshire resident, an award-winning blogger, and a member of the Board of Directors of The 603 Alliance and the National Heritage Center for Constitutional Studies. He is the owner of Grok Media LLC and the Managing Editor, Executive Editor, assistant editor, Editor, content curator, and more (yes, there's more) at GraniteGrok.com. Steve is also a former board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, the Republican Volunteer Coalition, and has worked for or with many state and local campaigns and grassroots groups, and is a past contributor to the Franklin Center for Public Policy.

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