The people of New Hampshire have Republicans to thank for securing their right to vote and every other liberty that comes with that right.
If it wasn’t for SB 129, which passed the House by a wide margin on Wednesday, we would continue to have no way to verify a person could legitimately vote in New Hampshire.
Under current law, we are giving people the chance to vote when they shouldn’t, and that threatens the very core of our Constitutional Republic. Without verifiably fair elections, how can we know if our elected representatives, senators and governor are using legitimate authority to make and enforce the laws we must abide by? Without a guarantee that our elections are fair, this authority can be legitimately questioned. If we really care about our liberty and our security, we don’t want such ambiguity in our election process.
Government, as Founder Thomas Paine said, is a “necessary evil” because it can provide the structure to protect the rights of all citizens equally under the law. As our Founders understood it and as those of us intent on restoring our Constitutional Republic understand it, there are just uses of government, and protecting the constitutional right to vote is absolutely one of them. The best way for a government to protect everyone’s right to vote is to provide an orderly process that ensures that only people who have that right are actually voting.
The bill just passed by the Legislature, which is now headed to the governor’s desk, requires voters to present…
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