Fred Teeboom
24 Cheyenne Drive
Nashua, NH 03063
(603) 889-2316
fredtee@comeast.net
11 September 2020
Sue Lovering, City Clerk
City of Nashua
P.O. Box 2019
Nashua NH 03061
Copy: -- Nashua Board of Aldermen
-- Bill Gardner, NH Secretary of State
-- Tiffany Lee & Cameron Lee
Subject: Problems with Absentee Voting during Primary Election 8 September 2020.
Dear City Clerk:
1 wanted to bring the following problems with absentee voting to your attention. These problems
relate to my own experience, but I presume are widespread:
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I applied for an absentee ballot on 18 August, the ballot was mailed on 24 August and
returned on 28 August (see SOS record, Exhibit #1, attached). Not counting the several
days delay for USPS delivery to and from my address, this represents a 10-dy delay in
processing. | consider this excessive, for it would appear that many voters who
requested a ballot less than 10 before the election would be disenfranchised.
In fact, my grandson Cameron Lee was disenfranchised by this very delay. He requested
an absentee ballot on 29 August (see Exhibit #2, attached) but had not received the ballot
before the election on 8 September. Furthermore, there is no SOS record of his absentee
ballot request (see Exhibit #3, attached)
Cameron’s mother called the city clerk office during the week prior to the clection to ask
where she could get an absentee ballot but a temp who answered said she was only a
temp and had no answers. My own call to the city clerk on Monday 7 September
concerning Cameron’s missing absentee ballot was answered with a “leave a message”
which was not returned.
I asked the moderator in Ward 1 on Election Day for an absentee ballot so it could be
delivered to Cameron for signature and returned by his mother, but was told a ballot
cannot leave the polling place. I asked the moderator to verify this with the city clerk
with his cell phone (moderators are supposed to have a direct connection), but again the
city clerk did not answer the phone.
Having voted with an absentee ballot I decided to test the absentee election’s susceptibility
to fraud, as widely forewarned in the media. I went to Ward 1 and requested a ballot.
After showing my ID I was handed a ballot, ready to vote a second time.
