Yes, when the Eldest and Youngest were young, the book “Where’s Waldo” was very popular. Essentially, it was a book of illustrations with a lot of “densely drawn” pictures and the idea was to find this character, Waldo, in all kinds of situations. Sometimes it was obvious but also times when it was dang hard to find him. Find him. You know, he could be anywhere.
It was a Dartmouth student voter “indefinite intention” case challenging Hanover’s so-called requirement of students to affirm they were going to stay in NH after voting. A foolish question to ask a voter. They should have asked for proof of domicile. But that was not the agenda.
Take a look at the NH AG’s advice from their web site: “How do I establish domicile/residence in New Hampshire?
Remember when we caught some vote thieves at State Senator Martha Fuller-Clark’s Voter Fraud Motel in Portsmouth’s residential district? Let’s re-cap because that incident is still relevant, as we will see.
Project Veritas and James O’Keefe steamrolled the Election Law Division of the NH Attorney General’s Office. This office has been whitewashing voter fraud for twenty years I know of. They use a series of tricks The Coalition of NH Taxpayers has been documenting since 2000.
The reporting from Portland now says the months-long civil unrest is spreading. The rioters are spilling into residential neighborhoods, targeting people inside their own homes.
New Hampshire Democrats have been telling anyone that will listen that Republicans are suppressing student votes. That was always a lie, as we’ve explained here as recently as this morning, but they took their latest tirade to court anyway and lost. Or should I say, had to walk away?
The voter registration laws in New Hampshire are, and have been, at best, illogical, and contradictory at worst. Putting aside for the moment the idiocy of having same-day registration and “open” primaries in which voters not registered to a particular political party can obtain a ballot and vote in a primary of whatever political party … Read more
Back in late October, the town clerk in Hanover, New Hampshire, made the news. According to The Dartmouth, the college campus newspaper, she said a new residency law does not impede the voting process for college students. But in a court filing to overturn the law, she is confused.
A little Pink Floyd the Wall vibe working here as Secretary of State Bill Gardner testified before a State Senate Committee. The short version is this. Leave the election laws alone.
Project Veritas is back in New Hampshire doing something the NH AG’s Office “Elections Division” hates. James O’Keefe and his journalists are videotaping and exposing voter fraud. It exposes the “Elections Division” of the NH AG’s Office for what they are – political hacks. For decades we have put up with the nonsensical position that … Read more
Here is the least laughable part of the NHACLU “suit” against NH voters. I have copied a paragraph of it here without citation and page break: “HB 1264 is unconstitutional under at least three different theories. First, HB 1264 violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution under the Anderson/Burdick, framework in that … Read more
The State Supreme Court has ruled (in its analysis of HB1264, which the governor then signed yesterday) that out-of-state college students do not have more rights than actual citizens of New Hampshire. They are not entitled to a special exclusion from the responsibilities actual residents accept including registering vehicles in the Granite State or obtaining a New Hampshire driver’s license. And asking these things of them is not a poll tax.
This is as it should be but New Hampshire Democrats have been stealing elections from Granite Staters for years and in spite of the court’s opinion they are ramping up to try and rob you of at least one more.
Ed Nail has been all over this, naturally but I just finished reading the decision so while you should read all of Ed’s remarks I want to try to use the court’s judgment to clarify what just happened when Governor Sununu signed HB1264 into law.
An excerpt from the State Supreme Court’s decision will help us along here.
To: New Hampshire State Supreme Court
From: Coalition of NH Taxpayers Chairman, Ed Naile
8 North Main St. Concord, NH 03301
Re: Court Review of NH Election Law Legislation
Date: May 29, 2018
M E M O R A N D U M OF L A W
Statement of Facts:
New Hampshire has a practice of allowing citizens of other states to vote in New Hampshire during our General Elections, which includes elections for Federal office. This practice has increased in volume since the adoption of same-day registration in 1996. Any person, from any state, who has attained the age of 18 can simply show proof identity to register to vote in New Hampshire, including a current, valid, out-of-state driver’s license. The registrant simply signs an affidavit as per RSA 654:12. It is known as a: QUALIFIED VOTER AFFIDAVIT.
The Attorney General’s Office, Elections Division, is tasked with enforcing election laws as per RSA 7:6 c. This office may prosecute – at its discretion.
There has been a decade’s old state of confusion regarding the terms “domicile” and “resident” which has been the source of several lawsuits regarding out-of-state college voters and transient campaign workers who choose to vote in New Hampshire instead of their legal residence in their home state.
DEMOCRAT STATE SENATORS WOODBURN, SOUCY, AND FELTES
As I discussed in Part I, the primary argument of these Democrat State Senators —like the ACLU and like the Democrat Executive Councilors— is that the Court should not return answers to the questions. Because I already addressed this argument in my discussion of the Attorney General’s memorandum in Part I, I will not repeat it here.
The Democrat State Senators argue that House Bill 1264 violates Part I, Article 11 because Part I, Article 11 requires the State to maintain two class of domiciliary: resident and nonresident. This argument is the same argument advanced by the ACLU and so can be answered in the same manner.
Not a comprehensive examination of all memoranda filed with Supreme Court regarding House Bill 1264. Just some notes I took while reading through them, cleaned up somewhat for public consumption.
SECRETARY OF STATE
The Secretary of State takes no express position on House Bill 1264. But he appears to agree with the position of the Governor —as I see it— that nonresident college students somehow have a right to vote in New Hampshire and remain nonresidents. I say this because of the Secretary of State’s characterization of the second question submitted by the Governor:
I know politicians often feel they must balance principals against results. Once elected (once) conservative candidates become more practical. They surrender the issues they ran for office on to the ability to get “things done” or to “save what they have won.” I the this entirely. It is a basic human instinct – except for liberals. Liberals, progressives, socialists, whatever you want to call them, go even more radical once surrounded by power. They try and eliminate all opposition, that is in their evil nature.
The best of all worlds for progressives is to get their intended victims to help them along. It is an easy task. Plenty of appeasers will side with progressives in an always unsuccessful attempt at satisfying progressive anger and deflecting attacks. This plan never works for long.
The old “loophole” argument is back at it again when it comes to voter fraud in NH. The “powers that be” who will not prosecute out-of-state voters have determined there is no law mandating a NH driver’s license to vote in NH. That is their current excuse.
This simpleton argument has no merit, but it does sound good – if you like out-of-state voters stealing a recent US Senate Seat election for Maggie Hassen.
Here is the specific language of RSA 654:1 regarding who can vote in NH.