Election News: Grafton County, N.H. Treasurer Unseated by Dartmouth Junior
Posted on November 13th, 2008
In a local election in Grafton County, N.H. the county's long time treasurer (a Republican) has been unseated by a 20-year-old junior who attends Dartmouth (which is located in the county), according to The Boston Globe.
The Dartmouth student, Vanessa Sievers, beat incumbent Carol Elliott by about 600 votes in a 42,000 vote race. That's around 1.5%. Sievers is a native of Montana. Elliott says she won because "brainwashed college kids" from Dartmouth and from nearby Plymouth State University turned out to vote her.
Elliott is unhappy. The Chronicle of Higher Ed calls Elliott's statements "sour grapes" in its blog…
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