CONCORD — Voter turnout Tuesday shattered records in towns across New Hampshire, and far surpassed the 591,000 Secretary of State David Scanlan had predicted.
“It looks like we’re going to be over 620,000 voters,” Scanlan said by phone on Thursday. “It was a record-setting day, a great turnout.”
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