A 2020 election audit in a small New Hampshire town started on Tuesday. A three-person team in Windham, which has a population of roughly 15,000, will examine ballot counting machines and their memory cards, and the hand tabulation of ballots, that were used and cast in the general election on Nov. 3, 2020, in the town’s Rockingham County district 7 House of Representatives race, in addition to votes in the district in the gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races. A hand recount ended with state House candidates in the district hundreds of votes apart from the original tally. Kristi St. Laurent, a Democrat candidate, for instance, received 4,456, according to the initial results. After the recount, she had 4,357. Windham Town Counsel Bernard Campbell told New Hampshire Attorney General Gordon MacDonald last year that the magnitude of error “was shocking to local Town Officials.” St. Laurent requested (pdf) an audit, saying …