Windham, New Hampshire 2020 Election Audit Starts
A 2020 election audit in a small New Hampshire town started on Tuesday.
A three-person team in Windham, which has a population of roughly 15,000, will examine ballot counting machines and their memory cards, and the hand tabulation of ballots, that were used and cast in the general election on Nov. 3, 2020, in the town’s Rockingham County district 7 House of Representatives race, in addition to votes in the district in the gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races.
A hand recount ended with state House candidates in the district hundreds of votes apart from the original tally. Kristi St. Laurent, a Democrat candidate, for instance, received 4,456, according to the initial results. After the recount, she had 4,357.
Trump-championed Windham 2020 election audit begins in New Hampshire Kaelan Deese
Another 2020 election audit is underway, this time in Windham, New Hampshire.
Activities on Tuesday included the arrival of ballot tabulating devices from Windham Town Offices, the delivery of election ballots, and the organization of equipment and materials, according to a readout from the state attorney general.
The audit is taking place at Edward Cross Training Center. Space is limited inside the facility, but the state s Department of Justice is offering members of the public a virtual viewing portal for the procedure.
Republican Gov. Chris Sununu signed legislation on April 12 directing an audit of the ballot-counting machines and memory cards used during the 2020 general election in Windham, as well as a hand tabulation of ballots for a state representative, governor, and U.S. senator races after a recount established discrepancies between vote totals. The law does not direct
In Windham, the 2020 election still rages
In this May 7, 2021 photo, Kristi St. Laurent, who ran for a House seat in the 2020 election, poses in front of Town Hall in Windham, N.H. St. Laurent, who requested a recount after losing the 2020 election by 24 votes, has led to a debate over the integrity of the election in Windham and prompted Trump supporters to suggest the dispute could illustrate wider problems with the election system. (AP Photo/Michael Casey) Michael Casey
Published: 5/9/2021 10:02:04 PM
Meetings of the Windham Board of Selectmen are usually as sleepy as they sound a handful of residents from the New Hampshire town, a discussion of ambulance fees, maybe a drainage study.
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PEMBROKE, N.H. (AP) An audit that examines a controversial New Hampshire legislative election will begin Tuesday, the attorney general’s office announced.
The audit, which will be live streamed from the Edward Cross Training Center in Pembroke, is reviewing the November 2020 Windham election for four state legislative seats. Republicans won all four seats, but questions emerged after a candidate who was a Democrat requested a recount. It found that all four Republicans gained an additional 300 votes, while the Democrat lost 99.
The discrepancy has fueled concerns among conservatives about the fairness of the country’s election process. Donald Trump last week praised those challenging the Windham vote count, as part of his wider claim of election fraud from 2020.
The crowd at the Monday meeting had been fired up by conservative media, which in recent weeks has seized on the town’s election results for four seats in the state House as suspect. The attention, fanned by a Donald Trump adviser who happens to be a Windham resident, has helped a routine recount spiral, ultimately engulfing the town in a false theory that the national election was stolen from Trump.
It doesn’t seem to matter that Republicans won all four state House seats in question.
The dust-up shows just how far Trump’s election lies and the search for evidence to support them have burrowed into American politics, even the most local. Like House Republicans in Washington fighting over what some call the “Big Lie” and lawmakers in Arizona conducting a partisan “recount,” this bedroom community is still wrestling with the aftermath of 2020.