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To: Brices Crossroads
Closed primary? No.

Unlike most other states, New Hampshire permits voters that have not declared their party affiliation to vote in a party's primary. A voter does have to officially join one party or the other before voting; however the voter can change his or her affiliation back to "Undeclared" immediately after voting, and hence he or she only has to belong to a party for the few minutes it takes to fill out and cast a ballot. Voters who are already a member of one party or the other cannot change their affiliation at the polling place: that can only be done before the checklist is closed several weeks prior to the election. New voters can, however, register at the polling place.[1] All voting is done with paper ballots; however, most of the paper ballots are counted by machine.

You can certainly see how the opportunities for 'shenanigans' abound with this system...explains all those cars with Maine, Vermont, and Massachusetts plates at the polling places in primary day...

14 posted on 01/22/2011 3:41:18 PM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: who knows what evil?

Yes. Hillary bussed in a ton of people from Massachusetts to vote for her the last time. The system is easy to game. Deliberately so, apparently. The RINOs like it that way, I think.


17 posted on 01/22/2011 3:43:40 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: who knows what evil?; Brices Crossroads

I think the NYT has a crappy article about this *stunning upset*...lol.


26 posted on 01/22/2011 3:58:43 PM PST by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want to be on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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