NH SOS To Unveil Voter Fraud Investigation Info By June: Report

CONCORD, NH — New Hampshire’s embattled but beloved Secretary of State says his office will unveil a comprehensive report about voter fraud in the state, according to a report in the Concord Monitor. The report, which SOS Bill Gardner said will be released in June, will show a new level of never before seen data about the issue which, he hoped, would allow residents to come to their own conclusions about the issue. Gardner said the report would show the work his office has done in the last year.

Gardner stated that officials in his office have been eyeing voting records inside of New Hampshire as well as out of state via the Crosscheck program which recently showed that nearly 95,000 voters were registered in both New Hampshire and other states.

Gardner – who has actually witnessed drive-by voting which some believe is fraudulent and shouldn’t be allowed in the state – challenges the notion of organized or widespread vote fraud in the state. At the same time, he has testified for tighter registration laws because fraud does in fact occur – and could happen, in an organized way, due to the loosening of state registration laws.

It is unknown whether or the report will address more than 15,000 voter affidavits that have been returned by the post office since 2012 – and are sitting in boxes waiting to be investigated.

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The Monitor report was released a few hours after a report by NHPR which purported to analyze the "rhetoric versus reality" of vote fraud in the state. While the report interviewed an election official from the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, it didn’t mention voter affidavits from the last three federal election cycles since same-day registration and voter ID laws were approved in the state. The report instead belittled the claims by some that busloads of voters have been seen in the past coming into the state to vote which may have changed the state’s election outcome – without actually speaking to people like Ed Naile or others who have offered evidence and been writing about the issue for more than two decades.

The NH AG’s Office also claims it has only received 76 complaints about voter fraud in the last decade, according to the report.

At the same time, Democrat Colin Van Ostern is openly running to challenge Gardner later this year to the position which is appointed by the Legislature.

The unsuccessful 2016 gubernatorial candidate is raising money via a political action committee that will then be used to promote candidates to the Legislature which he hopes will then appoint him to the position – while also pledging to implement political reforms. Two weeks ago, he said, he would modernize and secure state elections and business oversight, would stand up to political efforts to “complicate” voter registration, and support bipartisan and independent redistricting and other reforms.

Republicans pounced on Van Ostern’s effort likening it to a “fake yogurt mogul” with limited real life experience attempting to “mobilize liberal donors” to buy the SOS’s Office to politicize the office – something Gardner, a Democrat, has never done in more than four decades in the job. In a column, New Hampshire Union Leader editorial writer Grant Bosse suggested that Van Ostern’s effort was laughable: “CVO, SOS? LOL!”

Read the ConcordMonitor.com report here. Read and listen to the NHPR report here.

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