Category Archives: Elections
NH Senate Goes after NHMA in Bill to Certify Town Elections
The [NH State] Senate voted 21-2 today to pass a bill designed to allow towns that postponed town or school elections, due to the March 14 snow storm, to ratify the results. … Sen. Dan Feltes, D-Concord, opposed the bill … Continue reading
NH House committee Kills Plan To ratify Snowstorm-Delayed Election Results
Following about five hours of testimony, the House Election Law Committee voted 10-10 on the Jasper plan. The tie vote killed the speaker’s amendment, leaving 73 towns on their own to address potential legal problems resulting from their decisions to … Continue reading
Democrat Steve Marchand is Running for Governor
Marchand, a consultant, campaigned last year on making Medicaid expansion under Obamacare permanent, providing better support for roads and bridges, legalizing marijuana, and opposition to the Northern Pass project.He registered his candidate committee last week and it’s dated April 3. … Continue reading
N.H. Considers Letting Towns Upgrade Polling Tech
If New Hampshire allows electronic check-in at polling places, replacing ballot clerks drawing lines through voter names in printed books with people touching icons on computer tablet screens, it will be due in part to one unlikely motivation: the alphabet. … Continue reading
U.S. Supreme Court Rebuffs New Hampshire on Ballot Selfies
Voters in New Hampshire are free to take selfies with their election ballots and post the photos online after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to revive a state ban on the practice. The justices, without comment, left intact a federal … Continue reading
New Hampshire Voters Want Integrity in Elections
A majority of Granite Staters want only actual New Hampshire residents voting in elections as well as requiring valid identification. Unfortunately, the organizations pushing against (the) integrity of elections (several out-of-state organizations) don’t want the same integrity of the vote. … Continue reading
IMPORTANT SPECIAL ELECTION: CARROLL 6, Wolfeboro
The New Hampshire Firearms Coalition is pleased to offer this Primary Election Guide for the Carroll 6 Special Election for the State Representative race. These grades are the result of each candidate’s answers to an extensive questionnaire, including any available … Continue reading
Attorney: Vermont’s lax residency laws play a role in alleged voter fraud case
Did non-resident absentee ballots tip local election in a small New England town? The attorney who successfully petitioned Essex Superior Court Judge Elizabeth Mann to stop the town of Victory’s upcoming Selectboard runoff election said Vermont’s lax residency laws are partly to blame for … Continue reading
Where Were Out-of-State IDs Used to Vote in New Hampshire Last November?
There’s no mention of the thousands who registered with no ID in a state where a US Senate seat was flipped by a few hundred votes, but the graphs and maps are cool. In the 2016 general election, according to … Continue reading
Dave Boutin Considers Running for His Old State Senate Seat
Two prominent Manchester-area residents said Friday they are considering running for the New Hampshire Senate seat vacated by the sudden death of Scott McGilvray last month. Both David Boutin, the Hooksett Republican who held the seat for seven years, and … Continue reading