Manchester resident Derek Castonguay (domiciled in Manchester for voting and legal purposes) has turned himself in to authorities on, November 6, 2015, for knowingly making a false material statement regarding his qualifications to vote in the town of Salem . Seems he knowingly used a fake address to vote in Salem instead of Manchester . I don’t know his reason.
News like this has been a long time coming!
The Coalition of New Hampshire taxpayers has been flogging this issue since the year 2000. You are required by law in this state to vote in “the town or ward in which you are domiciled.” It is not rocket science.
For years we have listened to the excuse makers plead that if in your mind you lived at a certain address you could vote there. The problem is if you have a legal address/domicile you are stealing a vote from a person lawfully residing in that municipality.
Democrat governors have been vetoing clean election laws forever and the courts are playing games with the words in the laws as they did with the Claremont suit. So this is a watershed moment in NH election history for people who play by the rules.
Derek Castonguay can now ask for a progressive law firm to challenge or appeal his arrest and or conviction and bring the issue of EXACTLY what the NH Constitution means by the word domicile in Art. 11 where it uses that word specifically when it pertains to an inhabitant of NH voting in any state or municipal election. The NH Supreme Court would be on a short leash with this question because domicile is a real legal term accepted by the other 49 states and the Federal Government.
Kudos to the NH Attorney for general finally making an example of a person who thinks he deserves to maximize his vote by stealing another person’s vote.
Derek Castonguay is scheduled to be arraigned on Dec. 14, at the 10th Circuit Court in Salem at 8 am. Maybe I will drive on down there and sit between him and his attorney out in the lobby and see what their defense strategy is. That works sometimes.