And they won’t follow the lead of Iowa’s chaotic caucuses when votes are counted and reported from the state’s first-in-the-nation primary, state officials said Thursday. As Secretary of State Bill Gardner is fond of saying, “You can’t hack a pencil.”“We’ve kept it simple. At a news conference Thursday, Attorney General Gordon MacDonald and others described the state’s election preparedness and security for the Feb. 11 primary. New Hampshire has more than 6,000 local election workers who are trained by the secretary of state’s office. Cleveland, the grandson of President Grover Cleveland, said election officials had a long-standing tradition of going out to eat after the polls closed and before counting ballots.

Source: thestar February 06, 2020 22:07 UTC