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2002 SESSION

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03/09

HOUSE BILL 1308

COMMITTEE: Election Law

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill requires ballot clerks to ask voters if the address on the checklist is correct and to correct any incorrect addresses.

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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

6mar02...2674h

01-2156

03/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Two

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

98:1 Voting Procedure; Obtaining a Ballot; Address Corrections. Amend RSA 659:13 to read as follows:

659:13 Obtaining a Ballot. A person desiring to vote shall, before being admitted to the enclosed space within the guardrail, announce his or her name to one of the ballot clerks who shall thereupon repeat the name; and, if the name is found on the checklist by the ballot clerk, [he] the ballot clerk shall put a checkmark beside it and again repeat the name. The ballot clerk shall state the address listed on the checklist for the voter, and ask if the address is correct; if the address on the checklist is not correct, the ballot clerk shall correct the address in red on the checklist. The voter, if still qualified to vote in the town or ward and unless challenged as provided for in RSA 659:27-33, shall then be allowed to enter the space enclosed by the guardrail. After [he] the voter enters the enclosed space, the ballot clerk shall give [him] the voter one of each ballot to be voted on in that election which shall be folded as it was upon receipt from the secretary of state.

98:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

(Approved: May 3, 2002)

(Effective Date: July 2, 2002)