In the 2016 presidential election, New Hampshire registered the third-highest voter participation in the United States, with 72.5 percent of eligible voters represented by the number of ballots cast. Minnesota snared the highest rate that year, with 74.7 percent, and Maine followed with 72.9. The lowest voter turnout came in Hawaii, at 43.2 percent, and the national average was only 60.1 percent.
Such high turnouts have been customary in the Granite State for decades, thanks to strong public confidence in the integrity of our elections. Those statistics put the lie to partisan claims of voter suppression made by the man who lately calls himself Colin Van Ostern. Secretary of State Bill Gardner is the person most responsible for that long history of confidence in our elections, and Van Ostern hopes to replace Gardner in an ill-disguised effort to bend the secretary of state’s office to Democratic interests.
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