Another state prepares for audit of ‘controversial’ voting machines.
The governor of New Hampshire announced on Thursday that he intends to sign a bill allowing an audit of voting machines used in the town of Windham for the 2020 election.
Gov. Chris Sununu said he supported the bill, which is meant to address count discrepancies there, during a press conference on Thursday.
“I think they designed the bill very well,” he said. “And I fully intend on signing it and moving that forward as soon as we can.”
The bill, SB 43, which has been passed by both the state House and Senate, authorizes and directs an audit of “ballot counting machines and their memory cards and the hand tabulations of ballots.”
In November 2020, the city held an election for its Rockingham District 7 state representative seats. The vote was so close that it triggered an automatic recount, at which time seven of the eight candidates gained around 300 votes and one candidate lost 99.
The bill will also require a “hand tallying of all ballots cast in Windham in the Rockingham County district 7 state representative race, the race for governor, and the race for United States senator.”
The AccuVote machines in New Hampshire have been in use for more than a quarter of a century. They use Global Election Management software and were originally manufactured by Unisys and then by Global Elections Systems Inc., which are no longer in business. Dominion Voting Systems reportedly owns the intellectual property of the AccuVote machines and its related election management system.
This is an excerpt from the Washington Examiner.
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