Mass. Man Who Owns NH Rental Properties Faces Voter Fraud Charges

CONCORD, NH — Another resident of Massachusetts has been accused of illegally voting in New Hampshire.

Scott Kudrick, 50, of Norwell, MA, was arrested earlier this month on wrongful voting-voter fraud, a felony charge, as well as two misdemeanor counts of wrongful voting and unsworn falsification.

Investigators accuse him of voting during the April 13, 2021, Conway town election while being domiciled in Norwell — making him ineligible to vote in the Granite State. Kudrick was accused of submitting a voter registration form containing false information regarding his voter qualifications. Specifically, Michael Garrity, a spokesman for the department, said he claimed domicile in Conway while his domicile was in Norwell. Officials accused him of “submitting election paperwork, which bore warnings against providing false information” about his domicile.

If convicted, Kudrick faces three and a half to seven years in prison for the felony charge, a year each on the misdemeanors, and up to $6,000 in fines. He was released on personal recognizance bail and is due back in Carroll County Superior Court on Sept. 15 for arraignment.

Kudrick is the founder and owner of NH MT Rentals. The company's holdings include the Pumpkin Hollow House in Intervale, the Former Jackson House Inn in Jackson, the 1785 Inn in North Conway, and other properties.

Kudrick, according to superior court records, was also involved in a lawsuit by the town of Conway concerning short-term rentals. The Conway Daily Sun reported the lawsuit led to a town vote with residents rejecting a proposal by the Board of Selectmen to allow non-owner-occupied short-term rentals anywhere single-family homes were permitted by zoning. A warrant article from the April 2021 town election dealt with short-term rentals.

The newspaper reported last week that documents showed Kudrick used a Grove Street of the North Conway Post Office as his home address for his driver’s license.

The town is in the process of appealing the case to the New Hampshire Supreme Court, NH Business Review reported in February.

According to the Norwell, MA, town clerk, Kudrick was registered as an undeclared voter. He cast ballots in local and state elections in Norwell 11 times between 2007 and 2020, including the March 2020 Republican primary. He also voted once in 2004 in Plymouth, MA.

During the past decade, the attorney general’s office has arrested several out-of-state residents, including Massachusetts voters, who have voted in elections in New Hampshire when they were not allowed to.

Todd Krysiak of Alton pleaded guilty to a felony voting in more than one state charge in April after voting in both Alton and Leominster, MA, in the 2018 general election. Grace and John Fleming cast absentee ballots in Hampton for the 2016 general election and voted in person in Belchertown, MA. Spencer McKinnon, a UNH student in 2016, was also found guilty of voting both in Durham and Dracut, MA, for the general election that year.

The Flemings and McKinnon were found via the Interstate Voter Crosscheck Program, a multi-state database that is used to compare voter information for fraud and drive-by voting by non-residents via the “domicile loophole” that allows college students, “visiting professionals,” and others to vote in the state even though they do not live here.

Jury selection in the voter fraud case against Mary Kate Lowndes, the former peace corps director from Washington, D.C., who now lives in Hyannis, MA, begins in mid-September. She faces seven charges after being accused of registering to vote at a shopping center in Derry in 2016 and voting in the 2018 general election. Lowndes faces six to 10 years in prison, and $10,000 in fines and will lose any future ability to vote in New Hampshire if she is convicted.

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