Posted on 01/08/2008 8:24:24 PM PST by kristinn
HOW TO REGISTER TO VOTE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE (STATE WEBSITE)
WHO CAN REGISTER
New Hampshire residents who will be 18 years of age or older on election day, and a United States Citizen, may register with the town or city clerk where they live up to 10 days before any election. You may also register on election day at the polling place. The town clerk’s office can inform voters of what proof of qualification they should bring to register.
There is no minimum period of time you are required to have lived in the state before being allowed to register. You may register as soon as you move into your new community.
HOW TO REGISTER
1) Apply to your town or city clerk’s office. You will be required to fill out a standard voter registration form and will be required to show proof of age, citizenship and domicile.
2) It may be easier for you to register with your community’s Supervisors of the Checklist. By law they are required to meet on the Saturday 10 days prior to each election. Check the local newspaper(s) or call your clerk’s office for the date and time of such meeting.
3) Qualified individuals may also register to vote at the polling place on election day at all elections. You will be asked to show proof of age, citizenship, and domicile.
ABSENTEE REGISTRATION
If you meet the state’s voter requirements and qualifications and are unable to register in person because of physical disability, religious beliefs, military service, or because of temporary absence, you may register by mail. You should request an absentee voter registration affidavit and a standard voter registration form from your town/city clerk. The absentee voter registration affidavit must be witnessed and then both the affidavit and the voter registration form are to be returned to your town/city clerk. (MORE AT LINK)
http://www.sos.nh.gov/vote.htm
Consider the fact that a significant percentage of the American electorate doesn’t even know who they will be voting for until a couple of days before an election (primary or general, take your pick).
Add to that the fact that the Clinton machine embraces, at the core of its campaign philosophy, the belief that the apathy and ignorance of the American citizenry is as pliable as a piece of fresh taffy.
Hillary’s stands on the crucial issues that face our republic are relatively unimportant in comparison with her ability to mold public opinion based on the intonation of her voice.
I took a brief break from work yesterday afternoon, fixed myself a sandwich, and sat down to watch FoxNews. What I caught was ten minutes of E. D. Hill and Major Garrett replaying Hillary’s emotional response to a supporter’s question, and their analysis of how this ‘new side’ of Hillary would impact voters’ perceptions of her.
Fewer than twenty-four hours before the voting booths opened in New Hampshire, even these two Fox analysts (and I use the term loosely) were acting as unwitting campaign strategists for Clinton – setting the stage for her ‘unprecedented comeback’ … because sitting there watching them (and many other analysts) focus on her quivering voice were many New Hampshire voters who have little knowledge of Hillary’s genuine qualifications, and who were being told that perhaps she is much more ‘human’ than most of us think.
What a coincidence that recent polls have shown that Americans’ biggest problem with Clinton is her stoic/arrogant/unfeminine demeanor.
Half of the mainstream media served as willing cohorts in this public relations scam, and the other half served as useful idiots.
When a thirty-second, pre-rehearsed, scripted piece of acting, picked up and telecast into millions of homes, along with ‘analyses’ that magnify its meaning and importance beyond all rational proportion, trumps the experience (or lack thereof), record, philosophy and qualifications of a candidate … and may even have played a major role in the results of a primary election … our republic is standing on precarious ground.
I believe that many of the people who cast a ballot for Hillary in New Hampshire today did so because they either (1) like to support the ‘underdog’, or (2) saw a ‘new side’ of her as a result of her emotionality during yesterday’s acting job.
I also believe that, if you took those voters aside and asked them which of her ideas they support, the most common answers you would receive would be (1) ‘She wants to work for change’, and (2) ‘She has a new vision for America’.
We should all sleep well tonight.
~ joanie
Allegiance and Duty Betrayed
The MSM is having a field day dicking everyone around.
Obama Triumpant! the fall Hillary!
No wait.
The comeback Kid II! Hillary wins!
Obama throw in the towel? Is it over?
What does it mean?
Well the MSM will tell you!
The media was wrong again is what it tells me. Nothing shocking there.
Maybe it's time Obama went in front of the cameras and started "crying".
As much as I loath the Clintons and am ready to believe them capable of anything there is a less conspiracy minded explanation for this result.
All the pre election talk was of an Obama blow out and the Republicans deadlocked.
So it looks that a lot of the Independents, who can vote in either primary, said “Well heck, my vote will not count in the Dems election so I will go vote for my boy John McCain.”
That would explain this massive last second swing away from Obama and towards McCain. It would also explain why Hillary is won if a bunch of Obama leaning independents went over to McCain based on the assumption that “Obama will win anyway, my vote will count over here”
All the rest of the vote results are coming out right in line with the pre election polls. Huck at 12, Rudy and Paul duking it out for 4th at 9% and Fred at 1. Edwards 17, Richardson 5, Kucinich 2.
It only at the top of the ticket, on both sides Dem and Republican that the results are wrong. Obama lost to Hillary, McCain did much better then predicted
Ahhhhh but what will the DUmmies say about their anointed queen who has overcome the struggle of Obama?
The true moonbats are just starting to build their rigged election bonfires. It's early, but so far it was Diebold. Won't be long now, till the find the "proof" that ties in Halliburton and the Mossad.
Not only that, Hillary was SUPPOSED to win this one - for months, on end, she was leading in the polls. For Obama to come even THIS close is a major deal.
Rove, you magnificent bastard!!!!!
You must have forgotten midnight basketball. No other President has ever done anything similar.
Word on the street a couple of days ago was that Hillary's crowds at the rallies were bussed in from NY.
What are the odds that many of them conveniently stayed around to become fraudulent NH voters?!
I think you're right about that. I think the press thought if Obama was really a viable candidate who could beat the Clintons and could carry the presses' agenda, they could at long last, stiff the Clintons who made them eat excrement sandwiches for years and years while smiling and never saying a bad word about anything the Clintons did.
Ha ha ha, you have me laughing envisioning Obama tearing up during an interview on Oprah in order to recapture that particular voting contigent.
Good points, but the polls had McCain leading and Hillary trailing days before voting. And I can see the more liberal New Hampshire voters giving McCain the lead (with some help from the vote rigging).
Once there is a 3rd party to siphon the conservatives from the RINO Republican candidate, they won't have to cheat that much. '08 is shaping up to be a repeat of '92 because Hillary will never get 50%+ and they've known that since she decided to run. Plenty of time to set it up. All that remains to be determined is who the conservative 3rd party candidate will be.
However, I got to admit, given the early news reports about “Democrats running out of ballots” and how neatly this resurrects Clinton Inc’s political fortunes, it really hard not to suspect corrupt vote rigging
Sigh.. it’s been a long day. I need the comfort of Rush. Can’t wait till tomorrow.
You explained it well.
Another possible factor is the fact that traditionally black candidates over-poll.
Some white voters who don’t support the African-American candidate feel that they will look like racists, if they tell the pollster that they support the white candidate. They lie by telling the pollster that they will vote for the black candidate, but they actually vote for the white when they get in the voting booth.
I think if there was fraud it was done electronically. From what I’ve read this can be detected by an expert reading precinct by precinct results and finding commonalities that indicate an algorithm.
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