Tax Activist: AG’s Investigations Have Been ‘Laughable’

DEERING, NH — Ed Naile, the chairman of the Coalition of New Hampshire Taxpayers, a tax advocate since the 1980s, and a registered Democrat, is one of a handful of activists around the state investigating vote fraud and advocating for state compliance with federal law that only residents of New Hampshire be allowed to vote here. Beginning in 1996, he and others began investigating incidents – including allegations that voters were being bussed into the state from Massachusetts, to vote in Granite State elections – allegations raised by President Donald Trump a number of times since winning the presidency, most recently, last week, during a meeting with Senators and former U. S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-NH, when speaking about his pick for the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, according to Politico.

Trump later reportedly teased Ayotte that he would have helped her win had she stayed on the train but thanked her for helping with the Gorsuch nomination. Ayotte was also targeted by illegal mailers, made to look as if they were from the NRA, targeting her for abandoning Trump and supporting gun control, while also touting the candidacy of Aaron Day, a former Republican who ran as an independent candidate. Day and Libertarian Brian Chabot received more than 30,500 votes.

The rumors and allegations about bussed in voters led to hearings in the Legislature’s Elections Committee in 2005. Most of the allegations were not actually investigated but, instead, explained away as political activists and other orgs renting buses from the Bay State to assist in bringing New Hampshire voters to the polls, something conservatives and others say is simply not true.

Naile said he has pictures of the buses that he has tracked, with Massachusetts plates, and claims they were delivering illegal voters to the polls.

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The frustration of the lack of a true investigation into the allegations led Naile and others to limit the amount of information they now submit to officials and instead, out people online when they appeared to be voting illegally.

When asked about the abandonment of the affidavit investigation by the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office that Patch learned about on Friday night, Naile said the information came as no surprise.

“Absolutely, not at all,” he said. “I believe the NH AG and SOS are political organizations. Anyone who finds tracks (fraud) … they are going to look like they are investigating, but then not act; all they have to is deny, deny, deny, until the next election. They pretend they are doing their job (but) they are a waste of time.”

Few investigations led to perceptions

The lack of thorough investigations into any of the suspicions raised by people concerned about the integrity of voting has led to a perception that fraud isn’t happening – or can’t be done – in New Hampshire.

Naile said since 2005, most of the investigations by officials have been “laughable,” with officials seemingly not even asking for basic information. He pointed to the 2011 investigation of four of 49 voters allowed to vote in New Hampshire for the first time without an ID in 2010 and stated that one – Gregory R. Deperey – listed his home address as 66 Main St. in Durham, the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house, and 6127 Granite Square Station in Durham – the UNH mailbox in the MUB – as his mailing address on his registration form. The mail bounced back because his box was actually 6177, not 6127.

Four months after the AG’s investigation, Gregory R. Duperey, 21, of Lexington, MA, was arrested at the frat house for disorderly conduct, according to UNH Today, after a drug raid. Naile said the arrest right after the investigation raised a lot of questions about the validity of the NH AG’s effort into questioning Deperey/Duperey.

“Did they not ask for his license during the investigation?,” Naile asked, hypothetically, adding that Durham Police did and it showed that “he wasn’t a resident of New Hampshire; he was a resident of Massachusetts. (It looks like) he gave a fake name to that he could vote here.”

Another of the four investigated that year – Siannee Rea – doesn’t appear to exist, according to Naile. She registered to vote at 553 Old County Road in Alstead and was allowed to vote in Alstead but there isn’t an Old County Road in Alstead (there is in nearby Gilsum). After November, she moved to Idaho.

However, Naile said, Google and online investigatory services don’t appear to have any information on anyone with that name. The name “Sianee Rea” has a couple of listings to people in Plainfield, a few towns away, but nothing else in New Hampshire and nothing in Idaho, and he noted, he has been checking on her for years, trying to find out who she really is. These two examples, he noted, show sloppy investigatory work by the top cops while they were also telling the press that there is no voter fraud in the state.

“They view voter fraud as not voter fraud, it’s that simple,” he said. “They have dropped the ball.”

Naile said he continues to collect tips and work with others to track down potentially fraudulent voters.

In one incident this last election year, he was tipped off about was a last minute voter who walked into the Hooksett polling location, said he had no ID, but gave a local street address and was allowed to vote. A few minutes later, people at the polling location reportedly saw the man rummaging through cars. Police were called and arrested him. The man was reportedly driving a rental car with Massachusetts plates but had no driver’s license, according to Naile

Naile said he took the information from tipsters and the police and was able trace the man voter registrations – and cast votes – in Florida and Georgia, as well as New Hampshire. No one at the local address knew who the man was and he was never previously registered there or in New Hampshire. Nailed joked that man appeared to be "a fly-in, drive-by voter." The information, he said, was passed onto officials in both of those states.

At the same time, Naile is informing legislators that the registration process is too lax and, in his opinion, out-of-state college students shouldn’t be allowed to vote here either.

“All we need is the U.S. government to come in and say, ‘Show us the paper work,’” he stated. “These are federal elections. Domiciles and residences aren’t the same thing on the federal level. It doesn’t matter what the (state) Supreme Court says.”

On Sunday morning, after reading Ellen Weintraub of the Federal Elections Commission calling for evidence from Trump about vote fraud in New Hampshire, Naile emailed her to talk about the numerous incidents that he has documented during the last 20 years, including the allegations of buses, AmeriCorps workers voting using a closed state park as their domicile, the Hooksett incident, the sloppy investigations in 2010, and the lack of action on thousands of affidavits from 2012.

“(The) investigations are frauds themselves,” he stated. “Your help in the past would have been nice.”

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