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The machine Windham used to prepare its absentee ballots last fall wasn’t properly calibrated and folded the ballots in the wrong place. The ballots were designed to be folded with creases between vote bubbles, but in Windham, the crease overlapped with one of the bubbles for a state representative candidate, which messed with the vote totals when those ballots were fed through scanners to be tallied on Election Night.
There was no evidence of voter fraud or other election tampering. Hursti says New Hampshire’s use of paper ballots makes its elections more secure in general.
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Former Whitefield State Senator Jeff Woodburn was sentenced to 60 days in jail Tuesday on domestic violence charges from 2018 that include biting his then-domestic partner.
In May, a Coos County jury convicted Woodburn, 56, on four charges, dismissing five others.
Woodburn has maintained he acted in self-defense and hoped to avoid jail time. Meanwhile, prosecutors asked Judge Peter Bornstein to require Woodburn to begin serving his sentence immediately. After his trial, Woodburn said he felt vindicated because jurors had dismissed most of the charges he faced. Citing those comments, prosecutors asked the judge to send Woodburn a message.
“It is clear the defendant lacks remorse,” prosecutors wrote in a pre-sentencing memo.
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Auditors: 'No Basis' to Think Windham Vote Issues Indicate 'Partisan Bias or a Failed Election' nhpr.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nhpr.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.