The Florida and Georgia midterms leave questions about the accuracy and honesty of elections. Florida, in particular, reminds us of several recent elections where all of a sudden ballots are discovered in a back room, office, car or elsewhere. That kind of discovery always benefiting Democrats questions the legitimacy of miraculously found votes.
Progressives refuse to allow voter rolls to be purged of inaccurate, duplicate and deceased registrations; a federal law passed in 2002 requires this to be done, much to the chagrin of the left.
For 40 years, Secretary of State Bill Gardner has ensured that his office is nonpartisan. Both Democrats and Republicans have come to trust Gardner, respecting his honesty protecting election integrity for all citizens of New Hampshire.
Van Ostern’s hyper-partisan political ambitions are known to informed N.H. citizens. His “Free and Fair” mantra creates a false narrative suggesting that N.H. elections are somehow unfair. Injecting $250,000 into the process, including donations raised from sources out of state (Boston fundraising), Van Ostern suggests intent to politicize an apolitical state office.
New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary gives N.H. citizens a unique voice in national politics; it also provides a huge economic boost to the N.H. economy. Van Ostern would fold to his Democratic political masters who would love to craft their own path to power by minimizing New Hampshire’s primary influence.
Van Ostern would replace honesty and integrity with political ambition and duplicitous partisanship, disenfranchising half the population in favor of an ideological slant. Although his ideas about modernization are laudable, we just can’t trust the man.
BILL BUNKER
Barnstead