New Hampshire has an old-fashioned, unhackable method for delivering primary results

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published 12 February 2020

New Hampshire's old school way of voting appears to be working.

"We're definitely not looking at an Iowa," Associate Attorney General Anne Edwards told Politico. "Our election is completely different. There's no Russian hacking. I'm not sure what the Russians would hack. Our voting machines only plug into the wall."

Last week, Iowa's caucuses were marred by a malfunctioning smartphone app used for reporting results. In New Hampshire — where most of the polls closed at 7 p.m. E.T. — voters use pencils to fill out paper ballots, which are then counted by machines that cannot be connected to the internet. State police officers then collect printouts showing the final tallies, and drive them to the statehouse, Politico reports.

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.