Beginning in 2023, anyone voting in New Hampshire without proper ID will be subject to the requirements of SB418, An Act relative to verification of voter affidavits. Voters lacking required documentation will have their ballots set aside pending proof of a qualification to vote.
And if you fail to provide that proof, your votes won’t count.
On the seventh day after the election, if an affidavit ballot voter has failed to return the verification letter with the missing voter qualifying documentation to the secretary of state, either in person or using the prepaid U.S. Postal Service Priority Mail Express Envelope, the secretary of state shall instruct the moderator of the town, city, ward, or district in which the affidavit ballot was cast to retrieve the associated numbered affidavit ballot and list on a tally sheet, by candidate or issue, the votes cast on that ballot. The counting of votes on affidavit ballots identified by the secretary of state as unqualified shall be conducted by the town, city, ward, or district using the same methods of counting and observation utilized on the day of the election for hand counted ballots. The votes cast on such unqualified affidavit ballots shall be deducted from the vote total for each affected candidate or each affected issue.
New Hampshire has required affidavits for a long time, but they prevented only a fraction of the fraud.
SB418 is a bit more stringent, and we know that because Democrats don’t like it. One of them even expressed concern about overseas military ballots, which is total BS. They have almost zero interest in the voting rights of a class of voters that is still majority Republican. So SB418 should improve things, but it doesn’t go far enough.
While it will have some impact on the loads of out-of-state Dems who flock here to tip our elections, it won’t stop out-of-state college kids paying out-of-state tuition from using their college ID as proof.
(1) A driver’s license issued by any state or the federal government.
(2) An identification card issued under RSA 260:21, RSA 260:21-a, or RSA 260:21-b or a nondriver’s identification card issued by the motor vehicles division, department, agency, or office of any other state.
(3) A United States armed services identification card.
(4) A United States passport or passcard.
(5) A valid student identification card if:
(A) The card is issued by:
(i) A college, university, or career school in New Hampshire and approved to operate or licensed to operate in New Hampshire.
(ii) A public high school in New Hampshire.
(iii) A nonpublic high school in New Hampshire accredited by a private school accrediting agency that is recognized by the department of education.
(iv) Dartmouth College.
(v) A college or university operated by the university system of New Hampshire or the community college system of New Hampshire.
Students who live in NH have an NH driver’s license or official state-issued ID. They can get a fishing or dog license, file their federal taxes from an NH address, or get called for jury duty. That’s the shortlist.
In other words, SB418 scratches the surface. It might encourage some in the Granite State to cast ballots in their own states by absentee, but we won’t have clean elections until out-of-state students are required to vote by mail or absentee in their home states.
And for those obsessed with counting every vote, make sure people are voting from their legal address in that precinct and not just from wherever they happen to be on election day.
