Public Invited To Voter Confidence Committee Meeting In Nashua Monday

NASHUA, NH —The state's Special Committee on Voter Confidence has announced it will host a public meeting in Nashua next week.

The meeting will take place from 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Monday in the 3rd Floor Auditorium at Nashua City Hall, 229 Main Street. Members of the public are encouraged to attend. The meeting is available, audio only, via Zoom.

The event will feature presentations by Raymond Buckley, chairman of the New Hampshire Democratic Committee, and William O'Brien, New Hampshire Republican State Committee counsel. Their talks will be followed by a public comment period.

The meeting is one of several events the committee is hosting around the state ahead of November's midterm elections.

The committee was formed in late April by the Secretary of State David Scanlan as a " bipartisan effort to discuss and address growing concerns about declines in voter confidence."

The committee is advisory only and does not have the authority to change election laws.

"Our challenge is to make the process more transparent, help people understand it, so that there is no mystery," Scanlan told NHPR in April. "If we can do that, it is much harder to create a situation where people can claim conspiracies."

According to NHPR, New Hampshire's state and local election officials, including Gov. Chris Sununu, have repeatedly said the state runs fair and accurate elections.