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HB327: requiring that voters show identification when personally delivering absentee ballots to town and city clerks.
Bill details
Version history, amendments, and roll-call votes were not present in the imported local bill data.
Sponsors
- Katherine J. Prudhomme-O'Brien House · Rock 6
- John Michael Potucek House · Rock 6
- Chris True House · Rock 4
- Max Abramson House · Rock 37
- Beth Folsom House · Graf 11
- David C Love House · Rock 6
Topics
Elections and voting Local government
Official links
HB 327 - AS INTRODUCED
2021 SESSION
21-0530
04/11
HOUSE BILL 327
AN ACT requiring that voters show identification when personally delivering absentee ballots to town and city clerks.
ANALYSIS
This bill requires a city or town clerk to mark the affidavit envelope of an in-person absentee voter verifying that such person presented identification when returning his or her ballot.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
21-0530
04/11
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty One
AN ACT requiring that voters show identification when personally delivering absentee ballots to town and city clerks.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Absentee Voting; Verification of In-Person Absentee Voter. Amend RSA 657:17-a, II to read as follows:
II. The clerk shall mark the absentee ballot affidavit [enveloped] envelope with the notation "AIPIDS" (Appeared In Person, ID Shown) and "voter verified" and note on the clerk's list of absentee voters that the voter has been verified. The verified voter's signatures on the application for an absentee ballot shall not be compared to the voter's signature on the absentee ballot affidavit on election day.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.