Update: The NH SOS has issued a Voter Fraud Alert 2010.
There has been much ado about the voting machine irregularities that are already showing up in North Carolina, Texas, and Nevada where ‘early’ voting is going on for the November 2, 2010 elections.
Let us remind you of the many instances of voter fraud that have happened right here in New Hampshire.
1) In 2002 a CNHT member found that her name, as well as her deceased husband’s name, were already checked off as having voted when she went to vote.
2) In 2008, Christopher Luke Fithian wanted to make sure Obama was elected and voted twice up in the north country. This is one of the few cases of prosecuted fraud.
3) In 2000, 1700 students were caught voting improperly. Their only punishment was to write a letter of apology to the state and have their names taken off the list.
4) A candidate for Mayor of Laconia mailed out about 8,000 letters to the (approximately) 8,000 registered voters in Laconia. Some 800 of them were returned as having moved from Laconia. (The list of voters is only purged once ever 10 years). It was found that some 60 of those names who had moved from Laconia were marked off on the Check Lists as having voted. (All the records of that election have since been discarded.)
More recently, this same person voted in the Primary Election for a third party candidate, but his vote was not recorded. So as directed he sent a letter to the Attorney General. Assistant Attorney Bud Fitch responded. It seems that his vote had been given to George W. Bush, along with another voter’s. It was asked that the machine votes be hand counted, but the request was refused, “because two votes would not have changed the election”..
At another point in time this individual asked the City Clerk Ann Kalongis (Dearborn) about the computer programs that ran the voting machines. Ann told him that she had no way in which to check those programs, and that the programs were written in Methuen, Massachusetts. (Ann retired a couple of years ago and they now have a new City Clerk).
These are but a few of the many examples of fraud and probable fraud that CNHT documents each year.