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By RACHEL WACHMAN
Anne Baier remembers attending a New York campaign rally for John F. Kennedy when she was eight years old. Baier wore a button that said “If I were 21, I’d vote for Kennedy.” She recalled the awe she felt at seeing Kennedy come on stage and address...
By RACHEL WACHMAN and DAVID BROOKS
Republican majorities in the State House remain as red as ever, and in some cases, more so.In the 24-member state Senate, Republicans were poised to pick up two seats, elevating their majority to 16-8.Locally, Daniel Innis of Bradford fought off a...
By RACHEL WACHMAN
Incumbent David Lovlien, a Republican, won the race against Democratic challenger David Doherty for County Commissioner of Merrimack County’s District 3.Lovlien received 15,004 votes compared to Doherty’s 13,117. He has held the commissioner seat...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
In her decades of public service in Concord, Tara Reardon has held the titles of county commission chair, city councilor, school board member, state representative and commissioner of the department of Employment Securities. With a roughly 27...
By DAVID BROOKS
Some elected officials have received letters claiming that they were violating the New Hampshire Constitution by following the state’s procedure for elections, prompting the Secretary of State to tell officials to ignore the letter and proceed as...
By DAVID BROOKS
The AccuVote machines in Laconia’s Ward 3 is among those in eight polling places that were randomly chosen to be audited following Tuesday’s election.Two places using the new VotingWords device, Moultonborough and Rochester Ward 2, will also be...
By DAVID BROOKS
As you prepare to vote Tuesday, here is some advice:I forgot where and when to vote.Polling places and times in the Greater Concord area are in the Monitor and on the Monitor website. For everybody else, there’s an online form from the Secretary of...
Don’t expect voting on Tuesday to be speedy: Officials are anticipating record turnout and probably a lot of people registering at the polls.Secretary of State David Scanlan on Thursday predicted a record number of 824,000 New Hampshire voters will...
By DAVID BROOKS
The state’s top election official did his best Tuesday to ward off in advance any conspiracy theories about next week’s election, saying that claims about illegal voters or ballot tampering don’t resonate in New Hampshire because of in-person...
By DAVID BROOKS
Among other things, the Nov. 5 election will put New Hampshire judges in the middle of a long debate about how to deal with older workers: whether it’s best to keep them for their experience or ease them out to make room for new blood.A proposed...
Eleven years ago an amusing little controversy arose around New Hampshire elections: Whether the novel act of posting “selfies” online (this was 2013, remember) could legally be applied to pictures of your completed ballot inside the voting booth.The...
By DAVID BROOKS
In most elections, voters wonder about the candidates. For the county races at the bottom of our ballots, most people wonder about the office.With that uncertainty in mind, the Monitor put together this short primer on the county positions up for...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
In school elections shaping up to be a referendum on the middle school project, two incumbents and four challengers are vying for three seats on the Concord School Board.With the filing period now closed, the field has come into view. Board President...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
Joe Scroggins is one of more than 1,500 people who signed petitions to reduce the power of the Concord School Board and to rebuild the middle school in the South End where he lives with his family.After months of conversations with neighbors who were...
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
Francine Clave, a supervisor of the checklist in Loudon, was surprisingly thrilled when town officials received a hand-delivered letter from the Secretary of State’s office around noon on Election Day.Loudon had won a lottery of sorts: Along with nine...
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
Lily Tang Williams, a libertarian-leaning Republican who fled Communist China, won one of the most closely watched primary-day races in the state late Tuesday night, setting up a race against Democrat Maggie Goodlander for New Hampshire’s second...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
Tara Reardon may have prevailed in a contentious three-way state Senate primary in the heavily Democratic Concord area, but a key test for her candidacy, and her potential first term, is still ahead.On Monday, the state Legislative Ethics Committee...
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
Career law enforcement official Frank Cassidy coasted to victory in the Republican primary for Merrimack County Sheriff, vaulting him to a general election contest against Democrat David Croft, the current sheriff and Cassidy’s former boss.Cassidy...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
Tara Reardon, long-time former state representative from Concord and current county commissioner, won the Democratic primary for the state Senate representing the Capital Region by a 372-vote margin. In the three-way race between Reardon and two...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
The Ward 5 polling station at the Christa McAuliffe School was the epicenter of election day energy in the Capital City Tuesday morning. Not long after voting began, a swarm of CindeWarmington supporters flocked to the courtyard outside the school...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
For one Concord voter, the candidate who knocked on his door earned his vote. For another, it was a longstanding relationship that earned her trust. A third leaned on his top issue, the environment, to determine his choice. The race to succeed...
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