On Friday, Woods took aim at the ongoing election audit in Arizona which was launched based on Trump’s groundless claims that the 2020 election was “rigged” or “stolen” by Democrats and President Joe Biden. On Friday, the county board of supervisors told the Senate to preserve documents related to the audit in a litigation hold. The biggest flashpoint in the Windham audit so far has been the Board of Selectmen’s choice of Mark Lindeman as one of the auditors, as the town was allowed to hire one of the three members of the audit team. Hobbs earlier made television appearances claiming that GOP officials are just doing the audit because party members “refuse to accept that … The report says Russians targeted election officials and election web sites. The incident later raised alarms following revelations that Russian hackers had targeted the pollbooks’ vendor, Florida-based VR Systems, and that two days before the election Durham had experienced problems with its VR Systems software and voter database.

“I would expect the County would be able to identify shortlists of qualified forensic examiners who are trusted inside sensitive systems to examine the networks,” Loftus said. Diebold later changed its name to Premier Election Solutions and is now owned by Dominion Voting Systems. In 2004, Ralph Nader requested a number of voting wards in New Hampshire to be recounted in 2004 after George W. Bush’s results were 5 to 15 percent higher than 2000 and exit polls, based on the suspicion that the Diebold machines could be hacked and data provided by a Michigan programmer, Ida Briggs. Now, remember these same machines are used extensively in New Hampshire and the auditors have decided to also audit the Senatorial vote to see if it too is corrupted. Finally, Harry Hursti, Ph.D., has obscured professional relationships with the other two auditors, to which he does have strong professional ties. Instead, the current audit examines two broader questions: whether each individual voter was legally permitted, under state law, to vote in the 2020 election and whether all of the state’s vote-counting procedures for scanning, counting, and storing digital files were followed. The objective of the audit is to determine an explanation for major discrepancies that were found during a hand recount that was conducted shortly after the November 3 election at the request of a Democratic candidate for the state House of Representatives.

For months, St. Laurent worried that the discrepancy in her race would be usurped by the Trump election-reversal crusade, particularly as the recount suggested that the Republican candidates may have been deprived of a few hundred votes in the original tabulation. St. Laurent came out with 99 votes fewer, while the four Republican candidates who had beat her out each had 300 extra votes added to their tally. Could it be that reports of election irregularities that have been seeping out from several swing states are having a deleterious effect (from the Democrats’ point of view) on the public’s opinion about the integrity – or lack thereof – of the 2020 elections? As Dr Strang points out voters should not have to put their votes in the “right” machine. In Arizona, what many have considered to be the last breath of the “stop the steal” movement is playing out before our very eyes, as the 2020 election results from Maricopa County are being reexamined. “The suggestion has been made, however, that the requirement of a paper record to be used for a manual audit can be satisfied by a paper record of votes that is produced for the time after the polls have closed – that is, a printout of what the computer has stored, and that has never been seen by the voter.

This type of audit is possible because Virginia only uses paper ballots. Traditional post-election audits are usually conducted manually by hand counting a portion of the paper records and comparing them to the electronic results produced by an electronic voting machine. According to the meeting, the New Hampshire Secretary of State is in possession of the ballots and the Windham town is in possession of the voting machines. Todd says her group has collected more than 1,000 signatures from Windham residents so far. A New Hampshire town of just 16,000 residents has become the focal point of MAGA-world fantasies positing that a reversal of President Trump’s 2020 defeat is just around the corner. Nicole Bottai, Windham’s town clerk, said she was bewildered by the wildly wrong numbers. Georgia, Pennsylvania and Michigan, it comes as a small surprise that the idyllic New England town of Windham – where Republicans ultimately won each of the races now being inspected – also now finds itself under scrutiny for possible election night machine malfunctions and numbers that just don’t add up,” Just the News added. The discrepancy drew the attention of Trump and his supporters in their effort to find evidence of his wider claim of election fraud from 2020. Trump’s cheerleading of skeptics in Windham shows how his search for evidence to support his false claims of election fraud have burrowed into American politics, even at the local level.