The New Hampshire secretary of state said that the turnout in Tuesday’s primary election seemed to be better than expected, and there were no major problems reported. Local election officials reported light turnout, which is not unexpected in a midterm primary. Secretary of State David Scanlan said there were concerns late in the day that some smaller towns were getting low on ballot supplies, but no issues resulted from that. In the meantime, state officials were keeping a close eye for any irregularities in submitting and recording ballots . Three towns that had issues in the last election — Windham, Laconia and Bedford — had monitors in place to oversee the process. No problems were reported in those towns, and overall, Scanlan said it was a good day.” Today was a routine election ,” Scanlan said. “Things really went very smoothly. That’s a great tribute to all the local election officials and poll workers that helped out in the individual polling places. They really did a fantastic job.”Scanlan also announced Tuesday that the AccuVote electronic ballot counting devices used in Laconia and Hopkinton will be audited later this week as part of a new process to test high-speed scanners ahead of the general election. Scanlan said the AccuVote machines should be able to capture an image of both sides of the ballot and assign a unique identifier to each record. The audit will take place Thursday in Concord.”The Legislature in the last legislative session passed a law that would require an audit using a high-speed scanner to just verify the results of an election,” Scanlan said. “So, this is kind of a test or trial.”This was the first choice in which this technology was used.
The New Hampshire secretary of state said that the turnout in Tuesday’s primary election seemed to be better than expected, and there were no major problems reported.
Local election officials reported light turnout, which is not unexpected in a midterm primary.
Secretary of State David Scanlan said there were concerns late in the day that some smaller towns were getting low on ballot supplies, but no issues resulted from that.
In the meantime, state officials were keeping a close eye for any irregularities in submitting and recording ballots. Three towns that had issues in the last election — Windham, Laconia and Bedford — had monitors in place to oversee the process.
No problems were reported in those towns, and overall, Scanlan said it was a good day.
“Today was a routine election,” Scanlan said. “Things really went very smoothly. That’s a great tribute to all the local election officials and poll workers that helped out in the individual polling places. They really did a fantastic job.”
Scanlan also announced Tuesday that the AccuVote electronic ballot counting devices used in Laconia and Hopkinton will be audited later this week as part of a new process to test high-speed scanners ahead of the general election.
Scanlan said the AccuVote machines should be able to capture an image of both sides of the ballot and assign a unique identifier to each record. The audit will take place Thursday in Concord.
“The Legislature in the last legislative session passed a law that would require an audit using a high-speed scanner to just verify the results of an election,” Scanlan said. “So, this is kind of a test or trial.”
This was the first election in which this technology was used.
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