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You bring up an interesting point. College students paying out of state tuition at our state's public universities - they don't vote in NH, right? Or do they???? Would be very wrong if they did. If paying in-state tuition, it would be rightly assumed that they are NH residents.
Way back in the day (when dinosaurs roamed the Earth) I went to an out of state college. I voted in my home state's election by absentee ballot and everyone I knew did the same. Even those who lived in the state used absentee ballots as they were removed from their home polling locations. Of course, this was many years ago, so who knows how it goes today.
Way back in the day (when dinosaurs roamed the Earth) I went to an out of state college. I voted in my home state's election by absentee ballot and everyone I knew did the same. Even those who lived in the state used absentee ballots as they were removed from their home polling locations. Of course, this was many years ago, so who knows how it goes today.
Its probably a pretty safe bet that those racist thugs recorded trashing the Dartmouth campus are soiling the NH election with their tainted votes.
Seems like college students going to school in NH can choose to vote in their home state by absentee or can vote using their school address. That is ridiculous. They should vote in their home states. Absentee is easy.
maybe a few class B felony prosecutions (with subsequent disenfranchisement) will deter future vote fraud?
Now that we have a Republican governor who cares about vote fraud along with R control of the executive council, house, and senate, maybe New Hampshire can start actually investigating and prosecuting vote fraud?
It would also help to be stricter about residency and voter registration, we should address temporary visitors (college students or otherwise) by tuning our domicile law, which currently reads:
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Originally Posted by RSA 654:1
An inhabitant's domicile for voting purposes is that one place where a person, more than any other place, has established a physical presence and manifests an intent to maintain a single continuous presence for domestic, social, and civil purposes relevant to participating in democratic self-government. A person has the right to change domicile at any time, however a mere intention to change domicile in the future does not, of itself, terminate an established domicile before the person actually moves.
Since voter registration and the record of whether and where somebody voted are all public record, I think New Hampshire should crowd-source vote fraud data collection, and aggressively prosecute fraudulent voters.
Not because taking a half dozen voters off the rolls will change outcomes, or collecting fines of $5,000 per violator will help fund the state, but maybe a few class B felony prosecutions (with subsequent disenfranchisement) will deter future incidence?
I am pleased the little "d" Democrats carried our Federal Delegation. We did lose the governor's race because, IMHO, the huge advantage in name recognition as a Sununu. I see that as a step backwards for our state.
My proudest moment on this Political season was Bernie Sanders over whelming win over Hillary in the Democratic primary. I believe this is a better indicator of the real political desires of New Hampshire than the one Republican win.
I have studied the Voting system in New Hampshire and believe it would be impossible to falsely register or falsely vote in New Hampshire's elections. It has a set of internal cross checks and identification requirements that make false registration impossible. It also requires a picture ID to be presented before a voter is checked off the checklist and issued a ballot. The ballots are read by a simple machine not connected to any computer or network and stores the paper ballots for a recount if needed. After the votes are counted the checklist is entered into a State Database and checked of anomalies like double registration. This does happen but there are fewer then five per election.
The allowance for students to register to vote in New Hampshire if they are domiciled in NH for 9 months of the year is accompanied by the need for them to unregister at their previous place. I think this is reasonable because they are spending most if not all, when working in NH for the summers, of their time in this state. Just because much of their tuition may be from out of state should not make them nonresidents.
I'm confused, you are saying a trend away from voting blue is a change in the wrong direction? You do realize that this is the first time in over a decade we have a republican governor right? You do realize that NH overwhelmingly supported the current poor excuse for a president twice right?
"drips and drabs" towards a dem state.
Yes, I know about your "R" governor and POTUS twice vote and I agree about him being a poor excuse.
For a state to be "Live Free or Die" one would think it would want to escape democrat control as per their tax policies and such. I've always in my mind at least regarded NH as a Reddish State - this is why my "knee-jerk" reaction with my prior comments.
I can't worry about my state (NJ) as it's already a lost cause.
No need to be "bitter" in your response to me imo.
If your state is a lost cause, why would we be even remotely interested in your opinion of ours?
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maybe a few class B felony prosecutions (with subsequent disenfranchisement) will deter future vote fraud?
