As I mentioned yesterday, there is an audit of the election results going on in Windham, New Hampshire. The controversy in Windham started following a recount last fall in the race for the town’s fourth House seat between Republican Julius Soti and Democrat Kristi St. Laurent.
Soti won by 24 votes on election night. This was out of some 9K+ votes that were cast. In other words by less than 0.3% of the vote total. His Democratic challenger asked for a recount.
Imagine the surprise when a hand recount three weeks after the Nov. 3 election found all four Republicans running for seats in the New Hampshire House in Windham had received about 300 more votes than were reported from automatic AccuVote counting machines on election night. Not only that but the Democratic challenger lost some 99 votes during the hand recount.
The hand recount process used has been used for years – and supervised by the same Secretary of State for decades. Recount results have never been this far off from election night results.
AccuVote optical scanning systems were manufactured by Global Elections Systems Inc., which was ultimately acquired in 2010 by Dominion Voting systems. Dominion owns the intellectual property of the AccuVote machines and its related election management system. AccuVote is the only machine that is legal to count votes in New Hampshire. It is used everywhere unless the locality chooses to hand count their ballots.
There also appears to have been an issue with one of the four machines. While the percentages across three of the machines were quite similar, the fourth appears to have swapped the percentages of votes for Republicans and Democrats. This was consistent from the Presidential race on down. (See Presidential results below).
This kind of irregularity demands a full forensic audit which is what is happening now. Just as has happened elsewhere, odd things have happened. On Wednesday, the live stream cameras that were broadcasting the audit room around the clock went offline for about 90 minutes. The cause is undetermined.
Andrea Widburg over at American Thinker observes:
Even if the camera failure is nothing, the consistent Republican deficits cannot be shrugged off as a series of random errors. When a “mistake” repeatedly runs in only one direction over a separate series of events, the hand of man becomes apparent.
New Hampshire was called for Biden, but if the “mistake” was state-wide — that is, if Republicans were undercounted and Democrats overcounted in every county — perhaps Biden didn’t win New Hampshire. And if he didn’t win New Hampshire, maybe he didn’t win in some other states called for him, either.
This reminds me of the Jill Stein attempt to recount three states after the 2016 election. When serious discrepancies in vote totals started to show up, the recount was abruptly ended. Not this time.
Slowly the dominoes are beginning to fall.