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.
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