{"id":5607,"date":"2008-01-25T12:12:21","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T20:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5607"},"modified":"2008-01-28T18:07:48","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T02:07:48","slug":"nh-video-shame-of-custody-breakdown-in-ballot-storage-procedures-in-new-hampshire-primary-recount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5607","title":{"rendered":"NH VIDEO: &#8216;Shame of Custody&#8217; &#8211; Breakdown in Ballot Storage Procedures in New Hampshire Primary &#8216;Recount&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Blogged by Brad, from on the road&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Behold the &#8220;chain of custody&#8221; for the ballots in New Hampshire&#8217;s ongoing Election Contest hand counts. The man seen in the still frame below, on the right, is NH Sec. of State Bill Gardner&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"340\" height=\"280\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PKQEQ7qHvgM&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PKQEQ7qHvgM&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"340\" height=\"280\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The above video clips were recorded and compiled by election watchdogs Bev Harris (of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BlackBoxVoting.org\">BlackBoxVoting.org<\/a>) and Susan Pynchon (of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridafairelections.org\/\">Florida Fair Elections Coalition<\/a>), both of whom were on the ground in Concord during the initial stages of the requested Democratic and Republican hand counts following the Primary Election in the Granite State. Harris offers more commentary on the video above <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbvforums.org\/cgi-bin\/forums\/board-auth.cgi?file=\/1954\/71572.html\">right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Harris posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbvforums.org\/cgi-bin\/forums\/board-auth.cgi?file=\/1954\/71456.html\">stunning photo essay<\/a> detailing the embarrassingly poor condition of the ballot boxes themselves &#8212; unsealed, open for anyone to reach their hand in &#8212; as they were picked up from towns around the state and delivered to the counting area at Concord&#8217;s State Archives building.<\/p>\n<p>The counting continues today for Republican Albert Howard, though New Hampshire SoS Bill Gardner, seen in the above video, has <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5606\">requested a halt<\/a> in the counting for two days next week. That, after apparently <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5602\">misrepresenting<\/a> Democratic candidate Dennis Kucinich&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5598\">serious concerns about &#8220;significant variances&#8221;<\/a> discovered during counting of just one New Hampshire county so far. Disparities have been discovered as high as 10% for some candidates in some precincts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogged by Brad, from on the road&#8230; Behold the &#8220;chain of custody&#8221; for the ballots in New Hampshire&#8217;s ongoing Election Contest hand counts. The man seen in the still frame below, on the right, is NH Sec. of State Bill Gardner&#8230; The above video clips were recorded and compiled by election watchdogs Bev Harris (of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,133,122,6,170],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-black-box-voting","category-election-2008","category-election-irregularities","category-new-hampshire"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5607"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}