HB 1327 - AS INTRODUCED
2000 SESSION
HOUSE BILL 1327
AN ACT relative to residency of prisoners for purposes of voter registration.
SPONSORS: Rep. Clegg, Hills 23
This bill requires that, when completing a voter registration card, persons confined in penal institutions attach a statement of their domicile immediately prior to confinement. This bill also requires that the service address of unregistered armed services voters be added to the checklist with the voter's name.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
00-2556
03/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand
AN ACT relative to residency of prisoners for purposes of voter registration.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Elections; Voters and Checklists; Eligibility; Voters Confined in Penal Institutions; Address on Voter Registration Card. Amend RSA 654:2-a, III to read as follows:
III. In completing a voter registration card, as specified in RSA 654:7, a person confined in a penal institution shall list [the address of his or her domicile in the address section, and] the address of the penal institution in the mailing address section; in the address section, the person shall write: "Not applicable, see attached." The person shall attach to the card the following statement: "I, __________(name of person), am currently confined in __________(name of penal institution). My domicile immediately prior to my confinement was:___________(street and number) ______________(city or town). ______________(signature of applicant)." For purposes of the voter checklist, the address of the voter shall be the address of the penal institution.
2 Elections; Absentee Voting; Procedure for Armed Services and Federal Overseas Citizen Voting; Registration of Voters; Address. Amend RSA 657:21 to read as follows:
657:21 Registration of Voters. Upon receipt of a return envelope containing an armed services or overseas citizen federal election absentee ballot, the clerk of the city or town shall open and retain said envelope and deliver the affidavit envelope to the supervisors of the checklist of the voting place indicated thereon. If the voter is not registered, the appropriate affidavit appearing on said envelope, if properly executed, shall be prima facie evidence of the voter's qualifications to become a voter and his or her name shall be added to the checklist; for armed services voters, the name shall be placed on the checklist together with the voter's service address. The supervisors of the checklist shall then return the affidavit envelopes unopened to the city or town clerk who shall see that they agree in number with the mailing envelopes. Said clerk shall attach the application for an armed services or overseas citizen federal election absentee ballot submitted by said voter to the 2 corresponding envelopes and retain them until election day.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.