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N.J. among nation’s worst in making sure elections are secure. Why haven’t we fixed that? NJ.com 2 mins ago Jonathan D. Salant, nj.com After President Donald Trump and his Republican allies singled out Georgia and Arizona in falsely claiming that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, both states recounted their votes and found no significant problems. That’s not so easy to do in New Jersey after each election. It’s one of just six states that do not require a paper trail that allows election officials to check that voting machines were not hacked and the results...

NurPhotoGetty Images The ongoing farce in Arizona is, well, ongoing, and it is now expected to last through a huge chunk of the summer as well. This will serve the patrons of the farce well because it will keep that dark energy flowing in the mainstream, where it can be tapped by the people who have developed such a jones for it. Not only that, but it’s going in several directions now. From the AP: The crowd at the Monday meeting had been fired up by conservative media, which in recent weeks has seized on the town’s election results for four seats in the state House as suspect. The atten...

A closely watched audit of Windham’s November election results got underway Tuesday. The team behind it has until May 27 to figure out what might be behind a nearly 400 vote gap between Windham’s vote totals on Election Night and the results of a state-run recount a week later. “This fact pattern seems unusual, if not unprecedented,” Mark Lindeman, one of the auditors overseeing the Windham review, acknowledged on Tuesday. The opening day of the audit was largely administrative: Before any counting could begin, Windham’s ballot counting devices had to be transported from town office...

Published: 5/11/2021 4:40:48 PM The beeps in the parking lot told you a truck was backing up, ready to unload. Four State Troopers – wheeling dumpster-like containers, their game faces on, in single final – made their way Tuesday into the Edwards Cross Training Center, a New Hampshire National Guard facility that was chosen for its secure environment. Four computer-like bags, voting machines inside, were then placed on a table in a room that could have passed for a grade-school cafeteria. There were cameras and a live stream video feed, areas off limits, checkpoints and police. And the...

May 11, 2021 11:07 a.m. A New Hampshire town of just 16,000 residents has become the focal point of MAGA-world fantasies positing that a reversal of President Trump’s 2020 defeat is just around the corner. Their hopes are pinned to an audit beginning on Tuesday that is looking at a discrepancy that arose in the recount of a state representative race in Windham. After the audit plans made it into the spotlight of conservative media, more than 500 people reportedly showed up at a meeting last week of the Windham Board of Selectmen — normally a sparsely attended affai...