HB 312 - AS INTRODUCED

2003 SESSION

03-0884

03/01

HOUSE BILL 312

AN ACT relative to designating county delegates on state election ballots.

SPONSORS: Rep. N. Johnson, Straf 68

COMMITTEE: Election Law

ANALYSIS

This bill requires that the office of state representative also be designated on the ballot as "county convention delegate."

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

03-0884

03/01

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Three

AN ACT relative to designating county delegates on state election ballots.

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

1 State General Election; Designation of Office; County Delegate. Amend RSA 656:6, I to read as follows:

I. The office to which the candidates have been nominated shall be printed at the top of each box in which are grouped the candidates for the same office, with each box preceded by the word "For", as in "For Governor". The office of state representative shall also be designated "county convention delegate." Below [such] the designation for office shall be printed "Vote for not more than (here insert a number designating how many persons are to be voted for)."

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