A final report from New Hampshire’s Special Committee on Voter Confidence is stalled over a debate over how to frame the public testimony gathered over months of hearings — which included some unfounded claims about voting.
The committee’s latest meeting on Wednesday was supposed to be a final review of its report, and committee members said they had hoped to complete their work by now. But after hours of debate, the panel was still unable to reach an agreement over where to place a section summarizing public concerns on election integrity: either in an appendix or in the main text of the document.
Secretary of State Dave Scanlan created the committee earlier this year in an effort to gather public feedback on the state’s election system and identify solutions for building trust in the voting process, at a time of heightened scrutiny over those issues at the state and national level.
The debate over the structure of the committee’s final report illustrates the delicate tightrope its members are walking in that work, as they try to acknowledge some Granite Staters’ concerns about the electoral system without legitimizing false claims that jeopardize the trust they’re trying to strengthen.
As it stands, the committee’s draft report contains a sizable section distilling testimony from individuals who attended the public sessions it held since its launch in May. As it tried to identify the root causes of Granite Staters’ concerns over voting and present recommendations to...
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