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Loosely organized social media campaigns by those distrustful of elections and voting machines are encouraging voters around the state to force hand counts. But voting rights advocates say the effort could exacerbate the issue by making the process more cumbersome.
New Hampshire Secretary of State Dave Scanlan predicts that Tuesday’s election will set a record for voter participation in a midterm election.Scanlan released his prediction on Friday that 591,000 voters will vote, enough to surpass the record...
Loosely organized social media campaigns by those distrustful of elections and voting machines are encouraging voters around the state to force hand counts. But voting rights advocates say the effort could exacerbate the issue by making the process more cumbersome.
Unlike the current model that New Hampshire uses, these machines have software that’s open source, which allows anyone to see how it was programmed to tabulate votes.
Ben Adida, the founder of nonprofit organization VotingWorks that manufactures these machines, said the machine could be the answer to calls for increased transparency at a time when election integrity is facing immense scrutiny.