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Valid Reasons to Ban Voting Machines

The reliability of voting machines to accurately count votes has come under scrutiny. Especially since the fiasco of the Windham Incident that took place at the November 3, 2020 General Election. Those election results produced NH’s largest numerical discrepancy between election day vote totals and a subsequent hand recount.

Blogging can be Very Amusing: More Hate Email, Right Ken Pataska?

I have always told GraniteGrok writers that they are free to write about anything that amuses them even if it isn’t on our main topics of Politics and Political Culture. Sometimes, “hateful” emails turn out to be very amusing (but then again, I’ve been known to have a strange sense of humor).

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In NH, The Legislative Body (You!) Runs the Show. Selectmen Have a Purpose. Let’s Take a Look at It

Windham residents and supporters are justifiably outraged at being conned by opponents of a genuine forensic audit of the Dominion machine counted ballots in the recent NH general Election.

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So Kids, What Did We Learn From Thursday’s NH House Session (04/08/21)?

We learned that it took us a full day from 9am to 7pm to get through 51 House bills recommended as Ought To Pass (OTP) by their respective committees. They were from Criminal Justice (5), Education (12), Election Law (10), Executive Departments and Administration (8), Health Human and Elderly Services (8), and Judiciary (8).

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So Kids… What Did We Learn From Wednesday’s House Session (4/7/21)?

We learned that Wednesday was House Budget Day. The NH House spent the better part of Wednesday passing a budget that kept Republican campaign promises. We passed HB1 and HB2, the budget bill and trailer bill, which effectively utilized tax dollars, and cut back government spending while cutting taxes.