CONWAY — Tuesday’s New Hampshire state primary, seen as a dress rehearsal for November's presidential election, saw a record turnout, both in the terms of absentee ballots turned in and overall ballots cast.
Bill Gardner, the longest-serving Secretary of State in the nation, at 44 years and counting, said in the last state primary election during a presidential election year, only 9,270 absentee ballots were cast (roughly 5 percent of the 190,749 total ballots ).
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