The governor of New Hampshire announced on Thursday that he intends to sign a bill allowing an audit of voting machines used in the town of Windham for the 2020 election.
Gov. Chris Sununu said he supported the bill, which is meant to address count discrepancies there, during a press conference on Thursday.
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“I think they designed the bill very well,” he said. “And I fully intend on signing it and moving that forward as soon as we can.”
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The bill, SB 43, which has been passed by both the state House and Senate, authorizes and directs an audit of “ballot counting machines and their memory cards and the hand tabulations of ballots.”
In November 2020, the city held an election for its Rockingham District 7 state representative seats. The vote was so close that Democratic candidate Kristi St. Laurent requested a recount, at which time the four winning GOP candidates gained around 300 votes and St. Laurent lost 99.
The bill will also require a “hand tallying of all ballots cast in Windham in the Rockingham County district 7 state representative race, the race for governor, and the race for United States senator.”
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The hand audit, however, will not constitute a recount and, therefore, will not mean that the results of any of those November votes will change.
The Washington Examiner contacted the governor’s office to see how soon the bill might be signed but did not immediately hear back.
Editor’s note: This report has been updated to reflect the correct number of candidates that received approximately 300 extra votes in the Windham hand recount and who requested it.
