New Hampshire Primary Recount
For those who like to follow primary election news,here is a link with information on the New Hampshire recount.
I took a look after this was emailed to me and found the site to have lots of info not only in the main post but on the right sidebar.
There are a few interesting facts I suppose. Most of what I read are incidents which possibly could take place in any major recount in America.
This little bit of information did jump out at me however:
The sensitive memory cards containing the programming and tabulation from the Diebold optical-scanners are apparently “missing in action” for the moment. Those cards, as viewers of HBO’s Hacking Democracy know by now, may be used to hack an election, such that only a proper hand-count of the paper ballots afterwards will reveal the hack. (See the video of that hack for yourself right here. The same exact machine being hacked in that film was used across the state to count 80% of the ballots in NH in last week’s primary.)
And yet, says Bonifaz who spent time today speaking with New Hampshire Secretary of State, Assistant Secretary of State and Deputy Attorney General, nobody seems to have any idea where those cards are and what has become of them.
He says he was told by Secretary of State William Gardner that his office doesn’t get involved in tracking what happens to those memory cards. Some have reportedly been returned to LHS, and may have had their memory erased already.
“When you have a private company counting 80% of the votes, and you later learn that the memory cards are unaccounted for, you have a serious question about the transparency and accountability in that process,” Bonifaz said.
He notes that federal law requires all materials from elections be preserved for 22 months after the election. So if those materials have already been lost, destroyed, or over-written, there are legal questions that must be addressed.
Not being a conspiracy theorist, or an expert on voting machine mechanisms, I would not know if this memory card issue would be enough to call into question the validity of the NH Primary.
Written by Sue
