A1 COMMUNITY VOICES The Night I Got On Twitter FRIDAY, DEC. 16, 2016 Page 3 Cyan Magenta Yellow Yellow Black Image Conscious. Supreme Court To Consider Ballot Selfie Law. Page 4 A2 2 The Record Friday, December 16, 2016 What’s Inside Friday, Dec. 16, 2016 Ballot Selfie Law Vol 8, No. 26 Moves To SCOTUS Bath w Bethlehem w Dalton w Easton w Franconia w Lancaster w Landaff w If you had asked state Rep. Leon Rideout, R-Lancaster, Lisbon w Littleton w Lyman w Monroe (photo left) in 2014 if he ever thought he’d be in a po- Sugar Hill w Whitefield w Woodsville tential U.S. Supreme Court case some day, he might have said you’re crazy. www.caledonianrecord.com See Coverage Page 4 Publisher Todd Smith Citing a history of hotels on the top of Mt. 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(AP) — New Hampshire’s four Democratic electors have Page 6 signed a letter asking for members of the Electoral College to receive an intelligence Obituaries briefing explaining whether the government is investigating links between Presi- dent-elect Donald Trump and Russia. Page 10 Ten electors have signed onto Monday’s open letter to Director of National Intelli- Get Out gence James Clapper, posted on the social media platform Medium. New Hampshire’s Page 14 four electors are incoming congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter, former House speaker Classifieds Terie Norelli, former Senate president Bev Hollingworth and former executive councilor Page 23 Dudley Dudley. The electors meet Dec. 19 to select the next president. The letter states electors should know if there is an ongoing investigation into ties between Trump and his associates to possible Russian attempts to interfere in the election. “If Russia has and is meddling in our government and our politics I think it’s outra- geous and I certainly want to know all the facts that we can find out about it,” Holling- worth said. The CIA recently concluded that Russia likely sought to influence the U.S. election on behalf of Trump. Trump, a Republican, must win support from 270 electors to capture the presidency. He’s well above that based on the November election results, but not all states bind their electors to vote for the state’s winner. All four of New Hampshire’s electors plan to vote Littleton cheerleaders, from left, Kat Dexter, Mack- for Democrat Hillary Clinton, who won the state. The sole Republican to sign the letter enzie Blodgett and Madison Decoste lift one-year-old so far is Chris Suprun, a Texas elector who has already said he won’t vote for Trump. Kaedyn Michael Frost during halftime of a boys bas- “I am deeply concerned by Russian interference in our elections, and by Donald ketball game between Littleton and Colebrook at LHS Trump’s dismissive response to our intelligence assessments,” Shea-Porter said in a on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016. 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