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Experience vs. new blood: Mandatory retirement age for judges is on the ballot
10-29-2024 11:01 AM

By DAVID BROOKS

Among other things, the Nov. 5 election will put New Hampshire judges in the middle of a long debate about how to deal with older workers: whether it’s best to keep them for their experience or ease them out to make room for new blood.A proposed...

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Everything – well, many things – you need to know about voting Tuesday
11-03-2024 1:37 PM

By DAVID BROOKS

As you prepare to vote Tuesday, here is some advice:I forgot where and when to vote.Polling places and times in the Greater Concord area are in the Monitor and on the Monitor website. For everybody else, there’s an online form from the Secretary of...


Record turnout, lots of registrations expected during Tuesday’s election
10-31-2024 2:29 PM

Don’t expect voting on Tuesday to be speedy: Officials are anticipating record turnout and probably a lot of people registering at the polls.Secretary of State David Scanlan on Thursday predicted a record number of 824,000 New Hampshire voters will...


Local control keeps New Hampshire’s elections trustworthy, argues the Secretary of State
10-29-2024 3:11 PM

By DAVID BROOKS

The state’s top election official did his best Tuesday to ward off in advance any conspiracy theories about next week’s election, saying that claims about illegal voters or ballot tampering don’t resonate in New Hampshire because of in-person...


Granite Geek: The seamy side of those fun ‘ballot selfies’
10-28-2024 1:12 PM

Eleven years ago an amusing little controversy arose around New Hampshire elections: Whether the novel act of posting “selfies” online (this was 2013, remember) could legally be applied to pictures of your completed ballot inside the voting booth.The...


What’s with those elected county positions at the bottom of the ballot?
10-16-2024 1:22 PM

By DAVID BROOKS

In most elections, voters wonder about the candidates. For the county races at the bottom of our ballots, most people wonder about the office.With that uncertainty in mind, the Monitor put together this short primer on the county positions up for...


Six candidates, three seats: school board race slated to be referendum on Middle School project
09-17-2024 5:39 PM

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

In school elections shaping up to be a referendum on the middle school project, two incumbents and four challengers are vying for three seats on the Concord School Board.With the filing period now closed, the field has come into view. Board President...


Vote to move middle school motivates another candidate to run for Concord School Board
09-13-2024 2:49 PM

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Joe Scroggins is one of more than 1,500 people who signed petitions to reduce the power of the Concord School Board and to rebuild the middle school in the South End where he lives with his family.After months of conversations with neighbors who were...


Loudon randomly selected to participate in newly mandated voting machine audit
09-12-2024 3:52 PM

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Francine Clave, a supervisor of the checklist in Loudon, was surprisingly thrilled when town officials received a hand-delivered letter from the Secretary of State’s office around noon on Election Day.Loudon had won a lottery of sorts: Along with nine...


Lily Tang Williams beats out 12 others in 2nd congressional district to face Maggie Goodlander in general election
09-11-2024 4:55 PM

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Lily Tang Williams, a libertarian-leaning Republican who fled Communist China, won one of the most closely watched primary-day races in the state late Tuesday night, setting up a race against Democrat Maggie Goodlander for New Hampshire’s second...


‘Unanswered questions’: Reardon wins Senate primary with conflict of interest ruling still ahead
09-11-2024 3:15 PM

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Tara Reardon may have prevailed in a contentious three-way state Senate primary in the heavily Democratic Concord area, but a key test for her candidacy, and her potential first term, is still ahead.On Monday, the state Legislative Ethics Committee...


Frank Cassidy easily wins Merrimack County Sheriff primary, setting up general election clash with former boss and current sheriff David Croft
09-11-2024 1:48 PM

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Career law enforcement official Frank Cassidy coasted to victory in the Republican primary for Merrimack County Sheriff, vaulting him to a general election contest against Democrat David Croft, the current sheriff and Cassidy’s former boss.Cassidy...


Reardon takes Senate District 15 race, topping McWilliams, Brennan
09-10-2024 10:22 PM

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Tara Reardon, long-time former state representative from Concord and current county commissioner, won the Democratic primary for the state Senate representing the Capital Region by a 372-vote margin. In the three-way race between Reardon and two...


In tight State Senate primary race, Tara Reardon has no comment at Concord polls
09-10-2024 12:33 PM

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The Ward 5 polling station at the Christa McAuliffe School was the epicenter of election day energy in the Capital City Tuesday morning. Not long after voting began, a swarm of CindeWarmington supporters flocked to the courtyard outside the school...


Three voters explain why they support their candidate in Senate District 15 primary
09-09-2024 2:36 PM

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

For one Concord voter, the candidate who knocked on his door earned his vote. For another, it was a longstanding relationship that earned her trust. A third leaned on his top issue, the environment, to determine his choice. The race to succeed...


On the trail: Kuster predicts decision to name Walz as VP will win Harris NH
08-09-2024 2:35 PM

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster is optimistic that having her good friend and former U.S. House colleague Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota on the Democratic Party’s national ticket will help her party carry New Hampshire in the presidential election.“I’m very...


Update: Biden drops out of the 2024 race; Kuster endorses VP Harris for Democratic nomination
07-21-2024 2:07 PM

By Colleen Long And Zeke Miller

President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race for the White House on Sunday, ending his bid for reelection following a disastrous debate with Donald Trump that raised doubts about his fitness for office just four months before the election.The...


Concord School Board Zone B: Different backgrounds but shared values
10-28-2023 4:31 PM

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Liz Boucher, a mental health dietitian and a parent of two children attending Christa McAuliffe School, wants to bring a fresh perspective to the Concord School Board.Bruce ‘Gib” West, who spent 40 years working in public education, wants to offer his...


Senate weighs making vote machine audits permanent
02-01-2023 4:44 PM

By ETHAN DEWITT

During the 2022 elections, the New Hampshire Secretary of State’s Office audited voting machines in six different polling places, checking for accuracy and consistency as part of a one-time requirement by the Legislature.Now, Senate lawmakers are...


State audit of open-source voting machine gives thumbs-up, mostly
01-11-2023 3:54 PM

By DAVID BROOKS

The open-source software worked well but the hardware had a few issues.That’s the conclusion from audits of a new ballot-counting machine that was tested in three New Hampshire towns during the November election. The device, developed by a nonprofit...

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