There were 40 responses to this week’s Tele-Talk question, “Do you think New Hampshire adequately protects the polls from voter fraud?” A majority of people (21) said yes. There were 14 "no" responses, and five answers didn't directly answer the question.
In the early 1970s, while attending UNH in Durham, my two roommates would often vote in Durham and also in their hometown of Sandwich. I once asked the town clerk in Center Sandwich about these two people voting twice. And she said to me, “I'll pretend I didn't hear that.” And that was the end of that. And I'm quite sure that today the same thing still goes on. And many, many students vote in Durham and in their hometowns also. Prove me otherwise.
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