HB158: allowing the voter to deposit the ballot into the ballot box.

HB 158 - AS INTRODUCED

2003 SESSION

03-0417

03/10

HOUSE BILL 158

AN ACT allowing the voter to deposit the ballot into the ballot box.

SPONSORS: Rep. Dickinson, Carr 4

COMMITTEE: Election Law

ANALYSIS

This bill requires the voter to deposit the ballot into the ballot box.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

03-0417

03/10

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Three

AN ACT allowing the voter to deposit the ballot into the ballot box.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 Voting Procedure; Folding and Depositing Ballot. Amend RSA 659:23, I to read as follows:

I. Before leaving the voting booth, the voter shall fold [his] the ballot in the same way it was folded when received by [him] the voter and shall keep it folded so that the marks on it cannot be seen. [He] The voter shall then proceed to the checkout table and shall announce his or her name to the town clerk who shall repeat the name and place a mark beside it on [his] the checklist. The voter shall then present [his] the ballot with the official endorsement uppermost to the moderator [who shall then] and deposit the ballot in the ballot box.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.