The Union Leader is reporting this morning that UNH student Spencer McKinnon has pleaded guilty to voter fraud. McKinnon cast a ballot in Durham even after mailing an absentee ballot and voting in Massachusetts. Election Law violations in New Hampshire can come with losing your right to vote in the state, and he has.
Related: UNH Student Indicted for Double-Voting
On Oct. 24, 2016, McKinnon mailed an absentee ballot to the clerk in his hometown of Dracut, Mass. Two days later, he signed a voter registration form in Durham and attested that he “was not domiciled or voting in any other state or any other city/town,” according to the Attorney General’s office.
Todd Feathers at the Union Leader reports that McKinnon must serve 200 hours of community service and pay a $2,000.00 fine.
Article 11 of the New Hampshire Constitution empowers the state to revoke voting privileges for suitable violations.
[…] No person shall have the right to vote under the constitution of this state who has been convicted of treason, bribery or any willful violation of the election laws of this state or of the United States; but the supreme court, on notice of the attorney general, restore the privilege to vote to any person who may have forfeited it by conviction of such offenses. [emphasis mine]
Democrats who have been allowing out-of-state residents to vote in person or absentee form their home addresses are in willful violation of this article. I’d say it is why they are working so hard to make vote-stealing legal but that would assume they had read the document and that is clearly not the case.
