But as another crop of candidates, including Sanders, treks through his office to register for the February ballot, Gardner’s legacy is less clear. Gardner, a Democrat, is less than a year removed from a party uprising that almost cost him his job. Gardner, one of several Democrats on the panel, has defended the integrity of his state’s election and his decision to participate on the now-disbanded panel. He’s not running it the way he did before,’” said Stephen Merrill, a former Republican governor in New Hampshire. Gardner gave no indication of how much longer he would like to serve as the state’s chief election official.

Source: thestar November 04, 2019 05:37 UTC