CHAPTER 187

HB 326 - FINAL VERSION

 

05/20/2021   1525s

24Jun2021... 2035CofC

2021 SESSION

21-0313

11/08

 

HOUSE BILL 326

 

AN ACT requiring town and city clerks to make electronic lists of persons who have applied for absentee ballots available to candidates upon request.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Berry, Hills. 44; Rep. T. Smith, Hills. 17; Rep. O'Hara, Belk. 9

 

COMMITTEE: Election Law

 

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AMENDED ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires that town and city clerks make electronic lists of absentee voter applicants available to candidates who request them.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

05/20/2021   1525s

24Jun2021... 2035CofC 21-0313

11/08

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty One

 

AN ACT requiring town and city clerks to make electronic lists of persons who have applied for absentee ballots available to candidates upon request.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

187:1  Absentee Ballot Lists; Electronic Copies.  Amend RSA 657:15, II to read as follows:

II.  Candidates whose names appear on the ballot and persons bearing notarized requests or copies of notarized requests from candidates whose names appear on the ballot may obtain a list of absentee voter applicants from the clerk, excluding voters who have presented to the supervisors of the checklist valid protective orders pursuant to RSA 173-B.  If requested this list shall be supplied electronically from the information in the statewide centralized voter registration database.  If an electronic copy exists, it shall be provided without charge in accordance with RSA 91-A.

187:2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

 

Approved: August 10, 2021

Effective Date: October 09, 2021