CONWAY — According to longtime N.H. Secretary of State Bill Gardner, New Hampshire is the most open state in the nation when it comes to voting, and former President Donald Trump knows it.
“I think we should all be proud of the job New Hampshire does with its elections,” Gardner, serving his 23rd two-year term in office, said by phone Tuesday when asked about Republican allegations of voter fraud, such as was made by John Hartman of Eaton, vice chair of the Mount Washington Valley Republicans, who wrote a letter about it to the Sun.
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