Is it Constitutional for NH AG's to interfere with local elections officers? - Granite Grok

Is it Constitutional for NH AG’s to interfere with local elections officers?

I have a question for voter fraud deniers. It is pretty simple.

On November 8, 2016 a black man entered the Hooksett polling place just as the Hooksett Moderator had announced the polls closed. After some discussion about that issue the Moderator let him vote. He used his Florida driver’s license number, not license, as ID to vote and used the address of 65 Farmer Rd. where he does not reside.

On several occasions the NH AG’s Office has sent a bulletin to all NH election officials telling them that under no conditions is a person to be prevented from registering to vote (see after the jump). The letter was first generated in several elections ago by then Assistant AG Steven LaBonte.
If this voter, Michael LaSean Lewis, had been prevented from voting did he have a case for discrimination against the Town of Hooksett?
Would it be a case of “voter suppression” we hear so much about from Progressives – except this case would have a real person attached to it? Should the NH ACLU take that case?

Or do legal NH voters, as well as lawfully acting election officials, have a case against the NH Attorney General’s Office for stripping them of the right to do their jobs?

And who told Steven LaBonte to write such a clearly unlawful directive to citizen volunteers and elected local officials preventing them from ding their jobs?

A new US Attorney for New Hampshire, in my humble opinion, could ask those questions.

UPDATE:  “Guidelines” from the NH Attorney General concerning voting:

  • CAUTION: Under no circumstances should an applicant be turned away at the time and place of registration. Applicants who do not have documentation with them to establish their qualifications should not be told to go get such documentation. Rather, they must be given the opportunity to prove their eligibility by swearing to the Election Day registration form. (http://www.cnht.org/pdf/AGGuidance%20-%202014StateElectons.pdf)
  • Challenges:

Any voter registered in the same town or ward may, with due cause, challenge any other voter appearing to vote at such election. No challenge may be made unless an “Asserting a Challenge” form is completed by the challenger and signed under oath stating the specific source of the information or personal knowledge upon which the challenge is based. A challenge that is made on an insufficient basis, such as mere speculation, must be rejected. Challenging another person’s right to vote based on information that the challenger knows to be false or misleading is a felony. RSA 659:40, III (a).

 

 

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