That may be true in Pennsylvania. It wasn’t true in New Hampshire. Bolduc was about as conservative as the state could go.
I counted ballots last night in my small town in south central NH. These are not the exact numbers but roughly 1900 people are registered to vote in my town. 1500 turned out to vote yesterday. Close to 80% of the electorate. They turned out to vote for HASSAN. This was the largest percentage turnout in the towns history(according to the moderator).
We fill out paper ballots marked with a marker. We feed them into the machine and they drop into the box bottom. At 7pm the pools were closed. The moderator took the pile of paper ballots out of the machine and we sorted them.
I personally had 98 ballots. Most were either straight Rep or straight Dem. There were more Dem in my pile than Rep. The other thing I noticed were ballots where they voted for SUNUNU and then for HASSAN and KUSTER(NH2).
After that we(me and a partner) who was an 70 something Dem woman were given seven ballots that the machine could not read. Most were because of either being a mailed in folded ballot OR over votes. Over votes are when the person filling out the ballot votes for two candidates for the same office OR write INs. The team next to us had three write in votes for SATAN.
This process was overseen by the moderator. If we had a question what to do we asked him. Then we(my Partner and I) tallied the seven ballots and wrote them in a book.
Again, we had to agree on how many for each candidate.
That was it. Just over an hour. My wife and I both did this.
I think we were the only Republicans there(just an educated guess). However, both of us came away from the gym knowing that based on the DEM turnout in our small town, WE HAD LOST.