Links:
  1. On location CORRESPONDENT [Boots on the ground]
  2. Remote CORRESPONDENT [From your home or office]
  3. Instructions  how to fill out the sign up form
  4. Polling places
  5. Back to sign up form
  6. Contact us here

New Hampshire
GENERAL INFORMATION
The NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY IS HELD ON JANUARY 8, 2008.
Voting Takes place all day, and the counting begins that night when the polls close at around 6:30 or 7:30 PM EST .

Operation Watch the Vote 2008 is cooperating with WatchTheVote2008.com and LibertyBroadcastNetwork.com As a citizen correspondent, you are taking part in an historic effort to double check the results announced on the night of the New Hampshire Primary by Voter News Service/National Election Pool and its owners: ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX, and AP wire service. In the past, these corporations have been caught falsifying election results (i.e., the Iowa Presidential Caucus in Dubuque , Iowa 1996; FOX did not exist at that time) and apparently trying to warp election results through uniform, dubious projections (i.e., Senator Bob Smith Senate Race in New Hampshire in 1998.)

There are 210 voting precincts in NH. 105 are counted in the open by hand. 105 are counted in secret, by computer.

The danger is that the results published from the “hide the ballots” computer-counted part of the New Hampshire will be falsified to inflate the vote of the candidates favored by the Republican National Committee, the Democratic National Committee, and the 5 Big TV Networks, and also to suppress the vote of the candidates not favored by these entities.

By ascertaining the results at each of the polling places in New Hampshire , and publishing our independently collected results on the internet as soon as possible, citizens across the United States can check the certain results from the hand counted portion of NH, versus the published results in the secretly counted computer part of NH.

Needless to say, the results should not be drastically different from computer counted precincts to hand counted precincts in such a small, relatively homogenous state like New Hampshire .

Wherever there is use of secret computer counts where the ballots are hidden from the people during the count, this Watch the Vote 2008 system is the best US citizens can do on election night to try and ensure an honest vote count. (As the use of Vote Verification Affidavits increases by alert citizens who are forced to vote on secret computerized systems, then we will have an increasing and irrefutable check and balance on such secret computer “counts.”)

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WHAT ARE MY RESPONSIBILITIES

On location CORRESPONDENT [boots on the ground]
  1. Before leaving for the polling place, print out the tally sheet for all the candidates available at the confirmation page on this web site.
  2. Be at your assigned polling place on election day before the counting begins; counting will begin as early as 6:30 PM at some polling places in New Hampshire.
  3. If you are at a hand counted polling place, observe the hand count. (By state law you have the right to stand within six feet of the counting tables and observe and/or film the count); -- or
  4. If you are in a computer-“counted” precinct, watch what can be seen during the secret computer count, while making note of what you observe for the information of all US citizens. (If you are at a computer counted place and can there all day, use a hand-held counter to record how many voters go into the polling place. This is a check to prevent artificial inflation of the number of voters at computer counted polling places.)
  5. Wherever you are, use the tally sheet which you downloaded from this web site, and write down the final count as it is announced in your precinct.
  6. Finally, you will cause the results you recorded to be uploaded to the internet in one of two ways:
  7. Either call your assigned at-home support person who will then upload your results from his/her home computer to WatchTheVote2008.com – or
  8. If you have a laptop computer and can access the internet, you can upload the results yourself.

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Remote CORRESPONDENT [From your home or office]

  1. Contact the Town Election Official who will be running the precinct or precinct you are assigned to.
  2. Tell the election official that you are a citizen correspondent for Watch the Vote 2008 and Liberty Broadcasting Network, an internet news outlet.
  3. Tell the election official that we may have a correspondent  on the ground at his polling place to get the results, but that, as a back up, we would like to have a contact number so that we can call him for the final results.
  4. On election night, get the results directly from him on the night of the New Hampshire primary if at all possible, but at least by the next morning, as a backup.
  5. Download the tally sheet from this web site before election day.
  6. Record the results relayed to you from the election official on the tally sheet. (If we have a live correspondent at that polling place on election night, you will not need to bother the election official.)
  7. Upload the results on your tally sheet up to the internet.

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Instructions  To Sign Up to participate in Operation Watch the Vote 2008
 New Hampshire Primary (Jan 8, 2008),

 

  1. indicate whether you will be on the ground or helping from your home computer.
  2. indicate if you are willing be a team leader (help us organize one or more counties in NH); this is done in advance of Primary Day, so you can be a team leader whether you are going to be on the ground or in your home on primary night.
  3. If you are on the ground, indicate if you can provide video of some of the voting and counting (where the counting is done by hand and in the open.
  4. If you are going to be in NH on primary night, and If you know the polling place at which you want to watch the count, select it. If you are not sure, choose “Assign a place place to me.”
  5. Fill out your information, and then hit submit. On the next page, confirm your information, and hit confirm. By hitting confirm, you are indicating that you will accurately and honestly report the final vote count in your assigned precinct(s), and that you understand WatchTheVote2008.com and LibertyBroadcastNetwork.com will publish your name, your state, the precinct you are reporting on, and the final results for your precinct(s).

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