The latest effort to force the hand-counting of ballots in New Hampshire has fallen flat. Followers of MyPillow founder and Donald Trump ally Mike Lindell initially hoped to gather enough petitions to bring the topic up at 55 annual town meetings this month.
Residents gather at the Inter-Lakes Middle/High School for the annual Meredith Town Meeting vote on March 13, 2024, in Meredith, N.H. An orchestrated effort to get rid of vote-counting machines from dozens of towns and return to hand-counting elections has failed. Just a single town opted to return to hand counts in a single race, the presidential election, in a decision that both the town’s attorney and the secretary of state say is unlikely to stand.
“There was a lot of misinformation that was being spread,” Secretary of State David Scanlan said Thursday. “I think the general public saw through it, and the votes at those town meetings reflect that.”of widespread fraud tied to ballot-counting machines following the 2020 election. There is no evidence that machines were tampered with, and such claims have been repeatedly rejected by election experts, prosecutors and judges.
Danville Selectman Shawn O’Neil, who championed the issue in his town, said he has faith in local election workers but has broad concerns about vote-counting machines. He limited the question to the presidential race because it’s the nation’s top office. “It’s an all-or-nothing situation,” Scanlan said. “Frankly, I think that it would be a bad precedent to start allowing individual races to be targeted for hand-counting versus machine-counting.”
Nancy Jewell told the crowd of more than 500 that she’d worked on elections for more than 40 years as a precinct warden and poll worker.
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