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ROPER: Ballots Have Been Mailed Out! But To And For Whom?

October 24, 2026 Rob Roper

Vermonters are sharing stories of receiving ballots for the dead and gone. During COVID, Vermont started mailing absentee ballots to every voter on the statewide checklist (exceptions for those formally challenged) for general elections automatically and without request. The problem with this (well, one of the many problems) – as has been pointed out repeatedly … Read more

No One Secures Electronic Election Records in NH!?

November 19, 2024 Steve MacDonald

This sounds like the goal is to ensure no one is accountable to anyone for whatever happens to the digital data from federal elections.

NH Not That Interested in Securing Ballot Chain of Custody After All

October 24, 2024October 23, 2024 Steve MacDonald

After months of activism and several weeks of reporting, the problem of properly securing completed ballots appeared to make some progress. The New Hampshire Secretary of State’s Office agreed to purchase and provide tamperproof tape that showed evidence of tampering. It sounds counterintuitive to think we’d been doing it the other way, but it’s true. Activists discovered the … Read more

Breaking: Ballot Integrity WIN in New Hampshire!

October 2, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Whether you’ve been following the completed ballot storage box tape soap opera or not, this is excellent news. After a meeting with activists, the Secretary of State’s Office has decided to switch to the tape recommended and demonstrated by New Hampshire citizens. Here is the text in the image if it is hard to read. … Read more

Sec. Of State’s Office: It’s The Town’s Problem if Ballots Not Secured

September 13, 2024 Steve MacDonald

The “security of a completed ballot” soap opera in New Hampshire has added a new chapter. The New Hampshire Secretary of State’s office has responded to a Right to Know request regarding tamper-proof tape that doesn’t prevent tampering. If you missed earlier installments, activists discovered that neither the procedure for taping up boxes of completed … Read more

On The Radio – Skip joined Marc Abear and Paul Hopfgarten on “Common Sense Radio” (WEZS AM 1390, Laconia NH)

November 20, 2022 Skip

Every Saturday from 9am to 10am, Marc and Paul have guests on to talk about a number of issues. This week: An Israeli breakthrough in cancer treatment? How much energy DO you need? Is an e-Bike in your Christmas future? DO you want it in your future? And which matters more given this cycle’s election: … Read more

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2022 Election Cycle Leftovers

November 18, 2022 Skip

I have this habit, both good and bad depending on your point of view, of being a “tab hoarder”. I just don’t open up a few tabs for posts that I would LIKE to comment on – I have a lot. Right now, probably well over 800. I keep deluding myself that “I’ll get to … Read more

Exeter – “Transparent” ballots?

November 8, 2022November 8, 2022 Skip

Yikes – I was using a similar marker this morning: —– Original Message —— From: <redacted> To: “Skip@granitegrok.com” <Skip@granitegrok.com> Sent: 11/8/2022 11:09:16 AM Subject: Ballot bleed through – Exeter Good morning Skip and Team, Thank you all for always supplying useful info. Voted this morning in Exeter @ (9:00) and found the sharpie supplied had bled … Read more

Motion for Expedited Hearing to Determine the Safety, Efficacy, and Constitutionality of NH Voting Equipment, and Voting Statutes

October 17, 2022 Op-Ed

Now Come the Plaintiff, Daniel Richard, in the above-numbered and entitled action, pursuant to a Bonafide emergency, and moves the Court for this Motion for an Expedited hearing to Determine the Safety, Efficacy and Constitutionality of New Hampshire Voting Machines.

Young Activists Are Vital to Getting Rid of Electroinic Voting Machines in NH

April 17, 2022 Op-Ed

There are many more valid reasons to get rid of the AccuVote election machines in New Hampshire than to keep them.

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Proposed Legislation for Ballot Counting in New Hampshire in the Wake of the 2020 Election

July 31, 2021 Skip

The assumption here in New Hampshire is that we will continue to use the AccuVote machines, at least for the next several years, and that the machines are not as good as people when it comes to counting votes.

IRREFUTABLE BOMBSHELL! NH Demands STATEWIDE Forensic Audit

May 26, 2021 Steve MacDonald

That’s his headline so let’s run with it. Who? YouTuber Nick Moseder is reporting on the now-infamous Windham Incident, and he has – read the headline – an Irrefutable bombshell to share.

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Jovan Hutton Pulitzer – 28% of the Ballots Were not Counted?! – Fraud or Failure?

July 14, 2021May 25, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Jovan Hutton Pulitzer featured the Windham election and audit in a recent episode of his podcast. It’s not a lot of new information for our readers, but you’ll want to listen because what is new might amaze you.

Why Was an Associate NH AG Caught On Camera with the “Secured” Windham Ballots at 11:15 PM Wed Night (Then the Cameras Go Out)?

September 2, 2022May 14, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Before the security camera footage went out for about an hour, we see an image of NH Associate AG Anne Edwards walking toward a table covered with “secured” ballots – from the November election in Windham.

Secure the Recount: Bill Gardner Has No Specific Statutory Authority to Keep the Windham Ballots

May 6, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Windham Should immediately request the original ballots from Gardner who has them – with no specific statutory authority to KEEP them.

Make Getting a Gun as Difficult As It Is to Vote? – Okay, Mail a Few to Me…

April 15, 2021 Skip

I think that what the Democrats did in many States ensured President Asterisk would win. Send LOTS of ballots to everyone possible in their Area of Operations. If some people got multiples that’s a feature and not a bug, at least from their perspective.

A Comment on the Windham AccuVote Machines and Elections

March 4, 2021March 4, 2021 Op-Ed

Both sides of my family started serving our nation in 1776. Later, a relative would serve with Corporal Abraham Lincoln in Illinois. We had a relative serving with General Hood from Texas, Captain Halstead Burtis, while Major John Burtis served with the 13th NY Infantry.

House Bill 480: Make Ballots Public Records, and Thus Subject to Right To Know Law

March 2, 2021 Doris Hohensee

Any member of the public may attend an election recount in Concord and visually review all the ballots cast. Yet these same members of the public may NOT file a Right to Know request to review those same ballots.

Watermarked Ballots: If This Is Real – What’s Holding Them Back?

December 22, 2024November 8, 2020 Op-Ed

I see how Dr. Steve Pieczenik and Tony Shaffer support each other (regarding the questionable blockchain marked ballot idea). Yet I fail to see anything happening that’s concrete. Until I actually do see something concrete – color me skeptical.

Another Reason to Vote in Person – Boston Ballot Drop Box Torched

October 26, 2020 Steve MacDonald

We’ve told people for months that the only way to ensure your vote counts is to guarantee the chain of custody. From your hand to the machine that counts it. But the Democrat machine is pushing it alongside the fearmongering, and as promised, votes are being lost.