William Gardner Archives

Secretary of State’s office impedes candidate contact with absentee ballot voters.

September 19, 2020September 19, 2020 Norm Silber

Most candidates for public office in New Hampshire know that for a small fee they can obtain a complete list of all registered voters in their town providing names and addresses and party registrations. These are usually provided in electronic format such as Excel so that contacts by mail can be processed efficiently and inexpensively. … Read more

Election Quick Thought – NH Secretary of State race

July 18, 2022November 7, 2018 Skip

With the Dems now taking over, the next race is who will be the next Secretary of State? Will upstart and attention-seeking (and loud mouth) Colin Van Ostern cash in on this Democrat Socialist wave?

So Colin Van Ostern wants to be NH SecState and is taunting current SecState Gardner?

September 26, 2018August 3, 2018 Skip

Let’s see if Van Ostern has the courage to appear, not at a Democrat sponsored debate, but a Grokster (along with WNTK’s Keith Hanson) sponsored debate! We’ll even livestream it – every. single. second: Time to fish or cut bait, Colin. It’s easy to be in front of your homies; how about facing we who … Read more

How About That “Non-Existent Voter Fraud” Meme…or something

September 26, 2018September 1, 2012 Steve MacDonald

Donna Schlachman writing an opinion piece in Seacoast Online, says she asked New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner (last year) about voter fraud and….

I learned that actual cases of fraud are practically non-existent. Even last year’s staged attempt to prove that people can vote illegally in N.H. was unsuccessful. It turns out that the risk of denying legitimate voters their right to cast a ballot is far greater than the risk of someone voting here who does not live here.

Well guess what? If the State refused to charge anyone with burglary, actual cases of that would be non-existent as well.