Posted on 05/25/2021 7:42:03 AM PDT by Red Badger
On Monday, auditor Harri Hursti was interviewed by CNN, where he shared his surprise at the level of confusion being spread about the audit, as well as the “deliberate trolling” taking place. Hursti called it a malicious act that sends the wrong message. His interview was recorded by Windham audit observers and shared with UncoverDC.
When asked about the similarities in the audit in Windham and the one currently underway in Maricopa Co., Arizona, Hursti declared that voters in New Hampshire should have faith in their elections. Claiming the audit in Windham is different because their investigation is about the isolated discrepancies in results in a state that “follows the rules.” In somewhat of a contradiction, Hursti remarked that Americans should have confidence in the 2020 elections but also stated there is “a lot of work to do to improve the 2022 and 2024 elections.”
In standard practice, according to Hursti, a ballot has the Republican candidates listed side by side on one line, and the Democratic candidates listed side by side on the other line. However, according to Hursti, someone in Windham believed that would confuse voters, so they put the candidates on different lines, which permitted a fold line to run through one candidate.
Discussing the ballot folds in Windham’s election, Hursti indicated that due to a shortage of labor and increased demand for absentee ballots due to COVID-19, Windham borrowed a folding machine from the Department of Motor Vehicles to fold ballots. Hursti claimed the machine folded the ballots incorrectly, placing the crease right through Kristi St. Laurent’s name, and they did not match up with the printer’s score marks. Adding to the issue, Hursti said that over the past six months, ballots stacked away in boxes have flattened the paper, “causing the machine count and the human count to be closer.” He said the fold bump is being misrepresented by the voting machines, creating a phantom vote, adding:
“They ran short of labor, they were behind schedule, and they tried to speed up the process by borrowing a folding machine from the Department of Motor Vehicles. Unknown to all of us before we started the audit, the fold went through St. Laurent’s name.”
Maintaining there were no fraudulent activities, Hursti summarized Windham’s absentee ballot dilemma as the perfect storm of coincidences—incorrect folding by the Dept. of Motor Vehicle’s machine, one candidate in the middle of the fold, and the user interface. The good thing, he remarked, is “we now know the problem, and it can easily be fixed in the future.” Hursti added that there is “no evidence of a malicious act. [It is a] training and human error, instructional error.” He indicated it is doubtful any other races in New Hampshire are affected because every county has different ballots, and if there were widespread fraud in the state, “it would have come out.”
Hursti was again questioned by local election integrity advocates over the live stream going offline on one of the earliest nights of the audit. Explaining a miscommunication between the Attorney General (AG) and the live stream company, Hursti said the state couldn’t secure a single live stream provider, with the first one equipped to supply just twelve hours of coverage. He continued, saying the company was unaware the coverage was supposed to be 24 hours a day instead of only while there was activity in the audit room. Upon learning the live stream was down, attempts to reset it remotely were unsuccessful. Hursti maintained the AG arrived at the building after the live stream was restored, not before or during, and asserted the state trooper could confirm there was no malicious activity in the room while the feed was offline. The live stream can be seen here.
VIDEO AT LINK........................
Despite two of Windham’s four machines being in agreement and one being exceptionally off, Hursti reiterated there is no reason for concern in the rest of New Hampshire. Marilyn Todd of NH Voter Integrity Group disagrees, summarizing that out of the 243 towns in NH, 137 of them use the same Diebold ES2000 Model A voting machines as Windham. Hence, with over 200 of these machines in use across the state, Todd insists it is unreasonable to assume that Windham is the only town with a problem, as Hursti states. Additionally, Todd does not believe the discrepancies lie just in the paper folds, stating:
“If we allow them into manipulating us into thinking this is just the paper, we are not going to have a say in these machines. The paper folds are an excuse to make the rest of New Hampshire feel comfortable.”
On Tuesday, the auditors will conduct a forensic analysis of the voting machines, one of which had more difficulties with folded ballots than the others. Each memory card will need 90 minutes to read. With no explanation provided, details emerged late Monday that auditor Phillip Stark would not be present for the remainder of the audit, which leaves the inspection under the command of Harri Hursti and Mark Lindeman.
It’s quite interesting to note that these “glitches” never seem to happen to DemocRAT votes.
“It’s quite interesting to note that these “glitches” never seem to happen to DemocRAT votes.”
Exactly.
If these were random you’d expect closer to a 50/50 situation.
“and if there were widespread fraud in the state, “it would have come out.” “
ABSOLUTE LIE!
Or maybe REPUBLICANS made up 70% of the vote!
Should be some serial # connected to each ballot. A counted ballot then cannot be reproduced or counted more than once. Tired of these cluster fudges with voting/counting ballots ‘irregularities’ and outright fraud.
Election fraud done intentionally is CRIMINAL.
Get rid of these damn machines. Get rid of mail-in ballots. Vote on election day, one day. Count on election night, one night.
There are two issues here:
1. Did trump get the most legitimate votes?
2. If the final results did not match the actual legitimate votes, how did that happen?
Or, comparing it to a bank missing the money in the vault - we know the money is missing, we’re just trying to figure out how it happened.
Obviously Trump won. We’re just trying to figure out how the final vote showed him losing. Fraud, incompetence, etc can all be on the table. But the bottom line is that any reasonable person knows the wrong person is in the white house.
I’m getting a bit confused with all of this....
So, all the info coming out about how the machines in New Hampshire being off and favoring CornPop ends up being all about a crease in a piece of paper on an absentee or mail-in ballot?
If I’m not mistaken Republican’s in the state crushed Democrats on all the down ballot contests but, those very same people voted then changed it all up and voted for CornPop?
In this case, who designed the ballots that just happened to end up being folded where it would screw repubs? I assume they were tri-folded and repub ended up 1/3 and/or 2/3 down on the paper. How convenient.
The the serial number could be connected to the voter, and the secret ballot would be toast.
Don Imus used to say “Hammina hammina hammina” when someone was spinning like a top.
He was actually mimicking an old Abbot and Costello running gag. When Costello would run out of something to say or be embarrassed or get tongue ties, he would use that phrase to fill in the dead air................
The unaddressed question (read: intentionally dodged) is: were the regular folding machines tested and certified before the election? If there was no requirement, then there is nothing to do but correct the counts and institute a new standard.
If, however, the DMV machines were required to be tested and certified, heads should roll.
I vote for the latter as being the true story. (Hope my vote isn’t on a fold).
Use only paper ballots that can be hand counted on election day.
Integrity of the vote is paramount !
A freeper (4Liberty) was part of the audit and posted last night about this. Great info there. They used older “scantron” type counters too.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3962121/posts
I asked “How close were the races? Was anything overturned?”
He replied:
All the Republicans won. That didn’t change.
A dem was the one who called for a recount, because her initial loss was by about 44 points. The recount made her LOSE by even more points, LOL!
She thought she’d find more votes, but - it got even WORSE for her - she lost another 99 votes. The R’s increased their wins by another rouhly 300 votes each from the hand-recount. Hahahaha!
Not the Diebold Machines! Where’s that Dem quack from 04 who was always $5 away from getting Kerry to force Bush out of office?
Caught red-handed, they deflect the blame to the DMV.
Nice try!
Just so you know, “auditor” Harri Hugs to is a citizen of Finland. Why there is a foreigner auditing a US election should be questioned if reporters were worth their salt.
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