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It’s up to cities and towns to decide whether to release Republican results ahead of Democratic results if write-in votes for President Joe Biden end up taking a lot longer to count.
The first-in-the-nation New Hampshire primary will test former President Donald Trump’s Republican front-runner status though on the Democratic side, the contest may count only for bragging rights.
Many New Hampshire voters will be casting ballots on scanners that are at least 15 years old — with some potentially dating back to Bill Clinton’s presidency. Election experts say
Many New Hampshire voters will be casting ballots on scanners that are at least 15 years old — with some potentially dating back to Bill Clinton’s presidency. Election experts say the aging AccuVote ballot tabulators in use across roughly half the state’s towns and cities don’t pose additional security risks. The concern is their age. With a dwindling supply of replacement parts, breakdowns would create headaches for local election officials during Tuesday’s first-in-the-nation primary. That could force them to count ballots by hand and lead to delays in reporting results. Malfunctions and ballot-counting delays in other states in recent years have sometimes been used to promote conspiracy theories.