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RSA 657:22 · Cutoff

Title: LXIII: ELECTIONS
Chapter: 657 · ABSENTEE VOTING
Status: current
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657:22 Cutoff. – In any state election, a town or city clerk shall not accept any completed absentee ballots delivered to the clerk after 5:00 p.m. on election day except as provided in RSA 657:21-a, V and RSA 659:20-a. The clerk shall record absentee ballots received after such time in the statewide centralized voter registration database with the return date and shall mark the ballot as rejected due to absentee ballot receipt after election day. The clerk shall retain the unopened ballot until the time set for the destruction of other state election ballots as provided in RSA 659:100 at which time the envelopes shall likewise be destroyed, unopened and unexamined. Source. 1979, 436:1. 1983, 176:2. 1995, 48:1. 2010, 182:8. 2011, 72:4, eff. July 15, 2011. 2017, 196:1, eff. Sept. 3, 2017.

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Source. 1979, 436:1. 1983, 176:2. 1995, 48:1. 2010, 182:8. 2011, 72:4, eff. July 15, 2011. 2017, 196:1, eff. Sept. 3, 2017.

Source history

1979, 436:1
1983, 176:2
1995, 48:1
2010, 182:8
2011, 72:4, eff. July 15, 2011
2017, 196:1, eff. Sept. 3, 2017

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o the counting of absentee ballots. Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened: 1 New Section; Absentee Ballot Certificate. Amend RSA 657 by inserting after section 23 the following new section: 657:23-a Absentee Ballot Certificate. I. The secretary of state shall prepare and distribute to each town or ward clerk 2 copies of the absentee ballot ce
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llots in any election, unless the delivery agent is a nursing home or residential care facility administrator, an administrator designee, or a family member, each as authorized by this section. 2 Cutoff. Amend RSA 657:22 to read as follows: 657:22 Cutoff. In any state election, a town or city clerk shall not accept any completed absentee ballots delivered to the clerk after [5:00 p.m.] the close of the polling place on electio