(Thanks for posting this Susan. Part move below the fold) This morning the Election Law Committee heard testimony on HB143: An Act Allowing Straight Ticket Voting. This bill is sponsored by Representatives Notter, Peterson, LeBrun, and Rice – all Republicans. The NH legislature abolished straight ticket voting in 2007, after the Democrats took control of [...]
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It Might be Harder than You Think to Win Back the Statehouse
Next Tuesday, April 12, at 1:00 p.m. the New Hampshire House Election Law Committee will hold a hearing on SB129, AN ACT relative to presenting photo identification to vote in person and relative to the election fund. Senate Bill 129, passed in the Senate last week, purports to be aimed at preventing voter fraud but [...]
And you thought it couldn’t get worse!
Bills coming before the Election Law Committee on Feb 22 and 24. In general: These bills will make it virtually impossible for thousands of NH citizens, 18-years-old and older, to vote on Election Day. The most affected people will be the elderly, disabled, poor, young and students. The bills will require NH to create new [...]
NHYD Statement on Protecting Young People’s Right to Vote
By Kaili_Lambe on January 19, 2011 in
Tags: college voting, Election Law, NHYD, O'Brien, Speaker of the House, voter suppression, voting, youth vote
Today the New Hampshire Young Democrats released to the press our statement in response to the disturbing comments made by Speaker O’Brien to a 9-12 group last week. College students spend about 3/4 of the year at school and are likely more invested in their domiciled community than the town where their parents live. The [...]
Speaker O’Brien: Liberal? No Voting for You
By Zandra Rice Hawkins on January 14, 2011 in
Tags: college voting, Election Law, granite state progress, O'Brien, Speaker of the House, voter fraud, voter suppression
Speaking to the Rochester 912 crowd last night, Speaker O’Brien slipped up on his talking points and voiced what’s really happening when conservatives trump up charges of voter fraud: they are trying to suppress votes. Turning to the issue of voter fraud prevention, O’Brien said his party will “tighten up the definition of a New [...]
The Court Is Crazy
If 30 minute spots are the mother’s milk of a campaign, its time to switch to soy, buy stock in WMUR, then shoot your tv. The unlimited spending by outside groups will proliferate and metastasize this cycle, based on the Supremes expected ruling on the Hilary case. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01…The United States Chamber of Commerce, the goliath [...]
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