A working group of the House Election Laws Committee has endorsed the
change.
change.
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My comments on this article:
"Hysterical". This is an example of journalistic sloppiness. Landrigan
has inserted his own subjective and perjorative characterization of
the findings of citizen observers. He should
(1) Familiarize himself with what the actual findings are
(2) Review New Hampshire elections law, where he will discover that
the recount violated at least four federal and New Hampshire laws
(3) Do a quick news search, which will reveal that precisely the
issues raised by "hysterical" citizen observers were exploited in a
ballot tampering scandal in Maine referred to as "Ballot-gate." Maine
beefed up its chain of custody laws and sent to an aide to the Maine
speaker of the House to jail. New Hampshire did nothing and continued
to use ballot containers that, as reporters in Maine observed, "are an
open invitation to tampering."
(4) Next, Landrigan should review the videotaped evidence collected by
at least six different election watchdog groups over a period of four
weeks. Perhaps now would be a good time for Landrigan to issue a
correction and for the Nashua Telegraph to do a real article on the
breakdown in chain of custody in the 2008 New Hampshire recount.
This kind of journalism is not what the founders had in mind when they
envisioned a media that would act as a check and balance.
"No government ought to be without censors...and where the press is
free, no one ever will...it would be undignified and criminal to
pamper the former [the government] and persecute the latter [its
critics]." -- Thomas Jefferson
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"Hysterical". This is an example of journalistic sloppiness. Landrigan
has inserted his own subjective and perjorative characterization of
the findings of citizen observers. He should
(1) Familiarize himself with what the actual findings are
(2) Review New Hampshire elections law, where he will discover that
the recount violated at least four federal and New Hampshire laws
(3) Do a quick news search, which will reveal that precisely the
issues raised by "hysterical" citizen observers were exploited in a
ballot tampering scandal in Maine referred to as "Ballot-gate." Maine
beefed up its chain of custody laws and sent to an aide to the Maine
speaker of the House to jail. New Hampshire did nothing and continued
to use ballot containers that, as reporters in Maine observed, "are an
open invitation to tampering."
(4) Next, Landrigan should review the videotaped evidence collected by
at least six different election watchdog groups over a period of four
weeks. Perhaps now would be a good time for Landrigan to issue a
correction and for the Nashua Telegraph to do a real article on the
breakdown in chain of custody in the 2008 New Hampshire recount.
This kind of journalism is not what the founders had in mind when they
envisioned a media that would act as a check and balance.
"No government ought to be without censors...and where the press is
free, no one ever will...it would be undignified and criminal to
pamper the former [the government] and persecute the latter [its
critics]." -- Thomas Jefferson
------------------------------------------------------------
Use this link to go directly to full article:
http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/show.cgi?8/73552
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