Sanders Staffers Registered to Vote at Campaign Office: Report

CONCORD, NH - At least two campaign staffers for Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign reportedly registered to vote at the campaign’s Manchester office even though they did not live there, according to the latest Project Veritas undercover video released last night. 

The video – which is the second one released after New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary – purports to show how lax the state’s same-day and other voter registration laws are, since people who don’t actually live in the Granite State vote here by fibbing or outright lying on registration cards.

Two campaign staffers – Hugo Palma Jr. and Donna Waterman – reportedly registered to vote using the office’s address – 345 Cilley Road in Manchester – as their “domicile” location. Palma, the video noted, lives in Colorado and was crashing with other Sanders supporters in Warner while working as a regional field director for the primary.

In the video, he allegedly admitted that he didn’t register to vote in Warner but instead, used the campaign’s address, a violation of the domicile provision in the state’s voter registration law. Palma later was reportedly recorded saying he had no intentions of staying in New Hampshire after the election even though by registering to vote in the state using a “domicile” provision, another potential violation of the law. Under state law, he agreed that he intended to stay in the state when signing the domicile registration form. The form also requires that he become a resident within 60 days, register his motor vehicle, and obtain a New Hampshire driver’s license.

In the latest edition of undercover video released on Feb. 18, 2016, Project Veritas journalists recorded a number of Sanders staffers discussing how easy it was to register to vote in the state and how higher ups in the campaign were encouraging campaign staffers and volunteers to vote in the primary.

The New Hampshire Union Leader is reporting that election officials in Manchester have turned over documentation – including the voter checklists of the staffers – to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, including voter registration cards filled out by Palma and Waterman, which are not public documents.

The NH AG’s Office has already opened an investigation into voting irregularities after Project Veritas Action released its first post-primary video last week which showed staffers reportedly encouraging others to illegally vote as well as poll workers offering varying and differing legal interpretations of the voter registration law.

Anti-voter fraud activists have deemed the process by which activists and others who don’t actually reside or live in New Hampshire but take advantage of the domicile loophole to vote here as “drive-by” voters. While there have been a limited number of prosecutions of voter fraud and drive-by voting incidents in New Hampshire, it has been documented, including a man from Massachusetts who was prosecuted last year for voting in Manchester for numerous presidential primaries. Others have cast votes in multiple communities or also cast ballots for relatives.

Stephen LaBonte of the NH AG’s Office is still eyeing thousands of voter affidavits of voters that cast ballots in the 2012 presidential election and the 2014 mid-term elections.

It’s doubtful that the drive-by voters and out-of-state campaign staffers, volunteers, and activists won the state for Sanders – he bested former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by more than 53,000 votes – however, the documentation by Project Veritas is showing how real potential voter fraud is in the state.

VIDEO: BUSTED ON HIDDEN CAM: Sanders Staff Illegally Using NH Campaign Office Address to Vote