New Hampshire officials confident they'll avoid Iowa chaos

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire voters rarely rubber-stamp the results of the Iowa caucuses. And they won't follow the lead of Iowa's chaotic caucuses when votes are counted and reported from the state's first-in-the-nation primary, state officials said Thursday.

Both New Hampshire officials and outside experts agree the state is unlikely to experience the problems that plagued Iowa’s Monday contest for a variety of reasons: The New Hampshire primaries are run by towns and cities, not the political parties. Voters mark paper ballots, which are counted by hand or by machines that are not connected to the internet. Local election officials announce results to the public and the media on election night, and their handwritten tallies are delivered to the secretary of state’s office by state police the next morning.

As Secretary of State Bill Gardner is fond of saying, “You can’t hack a pencil.”

“We’ve kept it simple. I’ve always preached that the more moving parts that you have in the election process, the more room there is for something to not function right," he said earlier this week.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/new-hampshire-officials-confident-theyll-avoid-iowa-chaos/ar-BBZJgOd?li=BBnb7Kz

[MontanaMama]

1. You can't hack a pencil.

True story.