Ask A New Hampshire Democrat…Can I just Show up and Vote as a Delegate at Your State Convention? - Granite Grok

Ask A New Hampshire Democrat…Can I just Show up and Vote as a Delegate at Your State Convention?

Today, in Dover, a judge will hear complaints from the League of Women voters and the ACLU about New Hampshire’s law regarding proof of domicile and voter ID.  Their premise is that out of state students should not have to act like they live here to vote here. That requiring them to at least pretend to live here is some kind of suppression or violation of their rights.

I wonder if that works for other things as well?  Does my mere presence on the floor of the New Hampshire House make me a legislator?  Do I get to vote on the House floor for say, Dover, or Portsmouth, just because I want to?

Better yet, how about if I just show up at the Democrat state party convention, you know, me and a few hundred people…will you let us vote as delegates?  Let us choose your chairman and officers, vote on your party platform?  We don’t want to join the Democrat party, we don’t even want to pretend to join, we just want to vote on everything that defines it and everyone who leads it.

Ask a New Hampshire Democrat….Would that be ok?

I don’t think the ACLU or the League would let me just walk in and start making critical decisions for them either.

These students do not live here.  They admit they do not live here.  They clearly do not want to live here.  So why should we let them vote on local issues, now or later after they get their name on the voter rolls?  Why would we let them vote for New Hampshire’s’ choice for president? Why would we let them vote to affect the outcome of amendments to our New Hampshire state Constitution when it is already too inconvenient for them to follow the other laws of domicile in our state?

If you can’t be bothered to pretend to live here, you certainly do not have the right to vote here.

You can vote absentee in your home state.  That is what everyone else does in your position.

 

 

 

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