Miles Brown (CT) and Nicolas Macri (TX) are out-of-state students attending Dartmouth College. They also signed up to run for one of four NH House seats in Grafton County Dist. 12. With six candidates vying for those four seats, Democrats decided to kick the Dartmouth kids to the curb.
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Brown and Macri came in fifth and sixth leaving actual New Hampshire Democrats to fill these House seats.
Republicans don’t win election ins Hanover, so this is important. Had either of them managed to survive the primary, they’d be rubberstamped into office, and as I’ve pointed out a time or two, they are not from here.
Still not from here.
And as a reminder, their “voting rights” are not nor have they ever been in danger unless they get caught voting here when they should be voting absentee (by mail) in their home states.
NH Dems will still tell them they can vote in NH, but there’s a hitch. Your ballot might get set aside if you don’t have an NH ID (I’m sure Hanover will accept your Dartmouth ID, so there is that). But your vote will not be counted if you fail to provide acceptable proof of residency. That ballot will be destroyed.
In other words, if you listen to Democrats, you could lose your voting rights. If you vote by mail to your home precinct, the way Republicans do it when they are away on election day, your voting rights will be preserved.
And yes, NH Democrats will lie to you about it on the odd chance that they can steal a few votes in November.