Democrats created dual-status status rights in NH or voting purposes but only for out-of-staters. If you are in NH on election day but live in another state, feel free to vote there or here. Actual residents can’t do that but a law to end the practice is called vote-suppression.
Related: Are Out-Of-State College Students In New Hampshire Just Too Stupid to “Vote?”
Those who oppose the law also call it a poll tax. It is neither.
No matter where you are in our state, or anyone else’s for that matter, your right to vote is secured by something called an absentee ballot. Even New Hampshire Democrats know what those are.
I can’t thank the Bedford Democrat Town Committee enough. All those rants from Chairman Ray Buckley and the brood about Republicans suppressing out of state student votes just died. Out-of-State college students should request an absentee ballot so they can vote from their home town (no matter where they are attending college).
The only way a vote could be suppressed is if someone prevented or distracted someone from using this process.
Another argument from the left is that this law makes voting confusing. It’s so complicated the ACLU asked a Federal Judge to block it. But there’s a problem. They couldn’t present a single student who was confused.
U.S. District Judge Joseph LaPlante ruled Wednesday the plaintiffs didn’t prove their claims, saying they produced no witnesses stating that the confusion led them to decide not to register to vote. “Indeed, all of the witnesses who testified that they currently have out-of-state licenses also testified that they are registered to vote in New Hampshire,” LaPlante wrote.
Oops.
The Federal Judge did suggest a potential issue related to the Law and the department of motor vehicles, which got me thinking. What if the result of this lawsuit is the loss of revenue gained by charging for driver’s licenses?
I know it is not poll tax to charge a fee for an ID you are required to have to drive as a resident of any state. And temporary non-residents are not required to get a license in any state unless they move there permanently.
There is no fee to vote absentee anywhere in the nation, including New Hampshire, but you do need to be a resident to vote here just like every other state, which makes this statement from an ACLU lawyer appear as stupid as it sounds.
“Every eligible voter has the right to vote without confusion, without fear, and without the thought that maybe it would be easier if they vote at all,”
I agree. Stop making it confusing. Invest some of that money the Democrats donate to your organization to show out-of-state students how to vote with an absentee ballot and stop wasting New Hampshire taxpayer dollars so Democrats can steal New Hampshire elections.
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