Also on today’s menu:
Madbury Stabbing
School Threat
Governor Chris Sununu has signed a bill requiring that New Hampshire voting machines alert voters when their ballots include “overvotes,” rather than simply not counting them. Political advocates on both sides of the aisle supported House Bill 1163, which requires that the machines be programmed to return any ballot deemed to be an overvote to the voter, who then would have the opportunity to amend the ballot to make clear which candidate or candidates have been chosen. The ballots then would be hand-counted by election officials once the polls close.
The bill arose following the discovery that voting machines in Windham miscounted votes due to creases in the ballot. In other cases, a piece of dust, a stray pen mark, or a stain have caused problems in the machine’s ability to read the ballot. Some of the problems have occurred when voters fill in bubbles, realize they made a mistake, and draw Xes through the unwanted choice. Machines interpret that as a surplus of votes and disqualify the ballot.
Rep. Marjorie Porter, a Hillsborough Democrat and the prime sponsor of the bill, likened it to standardized tests. “When you were a kid and you took standardized tests, and the teacher always said erase your stray marks, because the machine is going to read it as an error?” That can happen on ballots too, she said. The idea is to reject such a ballot and return it to the voter, “like when you put a bad dollar bill in the coin machine,” Porter said.
Madbury Stabbing
Police have charged Paul Howard, 36, of Madbury with four counts of first-degree assault following an altercation on June 14. The victim of the assault, whom police did not identify, sustained several stab wounds and was treated at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital for non-life threatening injuries. Howard, too, went to the Dover Emergency Room for treatment of minor injuries.
New Hampshire State Police troopers had responded to the area of Bunker Lane in Madbury after receiving a report of a physical altercation involving two male individuals. The investigation led to Howard’s arrest.
Howard was held overnight at the Strafford County Department of Corrections jail, pending arraignment today in Strafford County Superior Court.
School Threat
New Hampshire State Police have arrested Shane Gobeil, 36, of Canaan, Vermont, on a harassment charge after connecting him with a threat against members of the Canaan public school.
The threat initially was reported to the Vermont State Police on June 13, with the school cancelling classes for June 14.
As a precaution, a New Hampshire State Police trooper was assigned to the nearby Stewartstown Elementary School during the investigation.
Café Chatter: Wait For The Facts
After reading and rereading the “The Big Ripoff” I was not impressed. First off, the hearing on the January 6th investigation is all one-sided; this is no different than a grand jury. I say let all the facts come out, but I doubt that will ever happen.
Regarding Trump’s Political Action Committee (PAC), it can give money to any other nonprofit organization and naturally pay the bills, like hotel bills. We all need to remember if Trump was purposely committing fraud (telling people I will use the money for X and then used it for Y), I am sure they would have charged him already if it was a crime. Anyways, let Trump stand for that crime but I doubt they will ever charge/convict him.
I say if you want to follow the money, forget Trump, look at what Biden gave Ukraine! Where did the 40 plus billion dollars go for Ukraine? If I were a conspiracy theorist, I think many people’s pockets could be getting lined with millions. Don’t you ever wonder how Senators and Congress go into office like you or me and come out multimillionaires? Think about it, 40 billion and now I hear it is up to 53 billion given to Ukraine. I know weapons cost money, but 53 billion?
Let me put some perspective on this amount of money. If I got this right, Ukraine’s yearly budget is equal to about 51 million US dollars per year http://old.cost.ua/en/budget/revenue/ and https://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=1500000000&From=UAH&To=USD. If we use 40 billion, this is giving them over 780 times their yearly budget to spend. Why are we worried about a million here or there when look what we gave Ukraine?
I know a lot of the money went to all types of US businesses and those goods were given to Ukraine. So, I ask, who is monitoring what Ukraine does with everything these businesses give to them? Are they using them all or maybe reselling some of it, who knows? Meanwhile we suffer with high gas, and heating oil prices along with food and many other things increasing by the day.
Please don’t peg me as against Ukraine or for Trump, because I truly don’t know the whole truth enough about either and neither do you. We are being fed what they want us to hear so we repeat it over and over again until it sounds so true, we think it is true. I said before, truth is getting harder to find these days.
This committee really seems like there is nothing to see here unless you hate and despise Trump. What Barr says about “2000 Mules” could be true but he did not back up his statement with any facts and he is a lawyer; show me some facts, please. Provide an investigation and prove these facts. And for the “2000 Mules,” did you see the documentary? You may want to watch it; it may open your eyes so you at least question things. Is it wrong to ask questions anymore? Is it wrong to verify the truth?
Elections do have errors, just ask anyone who’s had a recount. The recount is there because errors could have been made.
— John Sellers, Bristol
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