Protect the Count - NH

This replaces the earlier version, which was blocked due to music copyright problems.
When citizens tried to observe the central tabulation of election results, the NH Secretary of State told them they could not enter the "nonpublic" rooms where the tally was occurring and gave them a "warning" about videotaping events where the central tabulation was taking place.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• voting
• politics
• electronic voting
• New Hampshire
• Diebold

[Aquenef1]

It's great that NH has a public hand count - this is a major improvement from some other states. But what use is the hand count, if the hand tallies are made to match the electronic tallies by the end of the night?

[Aquenef1]

Some polling places did not make working tallies available to election monitors - providing only the electronically counted polling tapes (which are not necessarily accurate), rather than hand count tallies. In Manchester, poll location managers could not leave for the night until the hand counted tally matched the electronic tally. The reconciliation of the two numbers happened out of public view and based on our observation in one case, apparently without the paper ballots on hand.