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RSA 656:2 · Prohibitions

Title: LXIII: ELECTIONS
Chapter: 656 · PREPARATION OF VOTING MATERIALS
Status: current
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656:2 Prohibitions. – No person engaged in preparing or printing a state election ballot shall purloin, give away, or allow to be removed any such ballot. Whoever knowingly violates this provision shall be guilty of a misdemeanor if a natural person or shall be guilty of a felony if any other person. Source. 1979, 436:1, eff. July 1, 1979. State General Election

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Source. 1979, 436:1, eff. July 1, 1979. State General Election

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1979, 436:1, eff. July 1, 1979. State General Election

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2026 HB1627 repeal
nd Twenty-Six AN ACT creating a single primary ballot. Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened: 1 Single Ballot Primaries. RSA 656:23 is repealed and reenacted to read as follows: 656:23 General Form. All candidates for an office shall be listed on a single primary ballot and all registered voters may vote for any candidate. A candidate for a st
2026 HB1627 amend
designated. No candidate for that office shall be deemed the official candidate of any party by virtue of their selection on the single ballot primary. 2 Sample Ballots. Amend RSA 656:28 to read as follows: 656:28 Sample Ballots. The secretary of state shall furnish 10 sample state primary election ballots [of each political party printed on tinted paper] to each town or ward clerk and, upon request,
2026 HB1627 repeal
cability. The single primary ballot system of this act shall be used in the 2028 primary and in all applicable primaries thereafter. 9 Repeal. The following are repealed: I. RSA 656:25, relative to colored ballots for different party primaries. II. RSA 656:26, relative to the number of primary ballots sent to a town or city ward. III. RSA 656:27, relative to the number of primary ballots sent to a
2026 HB1627 repeal
2028 primary and in all applicable primaries thereafter. 9 Repeal. The following are repealed: I. RSA 656:25, relative to colored ballots for different party primaries. II. RSA 656:26, relative to the number of primary ballots sent to a town or city ward. III. RSA 656:27, relative to the number of primary ballots sent to a town or city ward for a new political party. IV. RSA 659:29, relative to c
2026 HB1627 related
pealed: I. RSA 656:25, relative to colored ballots for different party primaries. II. RSA 656:26, relative to the number of primary ballots sent to a town or city ward. III. RSA 656:27, relative to the number of primary ballots sent to a town or city ward for a new political party. IV. RSA 659:29, relative to challenges to primary elections. V. RSA 654:32, relative to hearings on alterations to pa
2026 HB1627-FN amend
designated. No candidate for that office shall be deemed the official candidate of any party by virtue of their selection on the single ballot primary. 2 Sample Ballots. Amend RSA 656:28 to read as follows: 656:28 Sample Ballots. The secretary of state shall furnish 10 sample state primary election ballots [of each political party printed on tinted paper] to each town or ward clerk and, upon request,
2026 HB1627-FN related
pealed: I. RSA 656:25, relative to colored ballots for different party primaries. II. RSA 656:26, relative to the number of primary ballots sent to a town or city ward. III. RSA 656:27, relative to the number of primary ballots sent to a town or city ward for a new political party. IV. RSA 659:29, relative to challenges to primary elections. V. RSA 654:32, relative to hearings on alterations to pa
2026 HB1627-FN repeal
2028 primary and in all applicable primaries thereafter. 9 Repeal. The following are repealed: I. RSA 656:25, relative to colored ballots for different party primaries. II. RSA 656:26, relative to the number of primary ballots sent to a town or city ward. III. RSA 656:27, relative to the number of primary ballots sent to a town or city ward for a new political party. IV. RSA 659:29, relative to c
2026 HB1627-FN repeal
cability. The single primary ballot system of this act shall be used in the 2028 primary and in all applicable primaries thereafter. 9 Repeal. The following are repealed: I. RSA 656:25, relative to colored ballots for different party primaries. II. RSA 656:26, relative to the number of primary ballots sent to a town or city ward. III. RSA 656:27, relative to the number of primary ballots sent to a
2026 HB1627-FN repeal
nd Twenty-Six AN ACT creating a single primary ballot. Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened: 1 Single Ballot Primaries. RSA 656:23 is repealed and reenacted to read as follows: 656:23 General Form. All candidates for an office shall be listed on a single primary ballot and all registered voters may vote for any candidate. A candidate for a st
2025 HB130 amend
Two Thousand Twenty Five AN ACT relative to the arrangement of candidates on primary election ballots Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened: 1 Order of Names. Amend RSA 656:24 to read as follows: 656:24 Order of Names. [With the exception of the office of state representative, whenever] Whenever there are 2 or more candidates for nomination to the same office, the names of such cand

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