What kind of machines are they voting on in New Hampshire?

:scared:

Some day, I am sure , Edwards will talk about that.

I think an automatic audit should be instituted along with mandatory paper trails...nationwide.

By state law, we vote on paper ballots.

Many jurisdictions then count those ballots using optical scanning.
Nashua, where I live, uses Diebold-manufactured scanners but it
would be hard to fake these out because the raw data (the paper
ballot) is still available. Hand recounts are often conducted
in close races (free if within 1% or 1/2%, but not-too-expensive
in any case).

For small-scale elections, Nashua still hand-counts ballots
because it's easier (cheaper) to do that than to get optiscan
ballots printed and get the machines programmed; I don't know
if that will be the case on Tuesday.

Tesha

the last time I looked this area was heavily registered democratic voters and for the most part the local elections go Dem but on the national level its too many re:puke: that makes me wonder about the counting.

http://www.sos.nh.gov/voting%20machines2006.htm
New Hampshire Municipalities which use the ACCUVOTE Voting Machine
(as of November 26, 2007)

On the Accuvote ballot, the voter fills in an oval which is placed next to a candidate's name.
After voting, the voter places the ballot in an optical scanning machine which will read all votes
cast on that ballot.
Allenstown Alton Amherst Ashland Atkinson Auburn
Barnstead Barrington Bedford Belmont Berlin (4) Bow
Brentwood Brookline Canaan Candia Canterbury Chester
Claremont (3) Concord (10) Conway Danville Deerfield Derry
Dover (6) Durham Enfield Epping Epsom Exeter
Farmington Franklin (3) Fitzwilliam Fremont Gilford Gilmanton
Goffstown Gorham Grafton Grantham Greenland Hampstead
Hampton Hampton Falls Hanover Henniker Hillsborough Hollis
Hooksett Hopkinton Hudson Jaffrey Keene (5) Kingston
Laconia (6) Lebanon (3) Lee Litchfield Littleton Londonderry
Loudon Madison Manchester (12) Meredith Merrimack Milan
Milford Milton Moultonborough Nashua (9) New Boston New Durham
New Hampton New Ipswich New London Newmarket
Newfields Newbury Newton North Hampton Northwood Nottingham
Ossipee Pelham Pembroke Peterborough Pittsfield Plaistow
Portsmouth (5) Raymond Rindge Rochester (6) Rye Salem
Sanbornton Sandown Seabrook Somersworth (5) Stratham Sunapee
Swanzey Tamworth Tilton Wakefield Weare Winchester
Windham Wolfeboro Campton East Kingston Plymouth

All other municipalities in New Hampshire use paper ballots, where the voter marks an X in a box printed next to a candidate's name. Votes are counted by hand.
Shows which counties use optiscan and which use hand counted paper.