HB 411 - AS INTRODUCED
2001 SESSION
HOUSE BILL 411
AN ACT requiring that New Hampshire's presidential electors be bound to vote for the candidates of the party which nominated the electors.
This bill requires presidential electors to vote for the presidential and vice-presidential candidates of the party which nominated the electors.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
01-0384
03/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand One
AN ACT requiring that New Hampshire's presidential electors be bound to vote for the candidates of the party which nominated the electors.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Meetings of Presidential Electors; Conduct; Failure or Refusal to Vote. Amend RSA 660:29 to read as follows:
660:29 Conduct. The electors shall give their votes for president and vice-president of the United States in Concord on said day and shall proceed according to law. Refusal or failure to vote for the candidates for president and vice-president appearing on the New Hampshire ballot of the party which nominated the elector constitutes a resignation from the office of elector, and such elector's vote shall not be recorded. Vacancies caused by such resignation shall be filled according to RSA 660:28.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.