CHAPTER 243
HB 1567 – FINAL VERSION
21mar06… 1085h
04/20/06 1800s
2006 SESSION
03/10
HOUSE BILL 1567
This bill authorizes any person to request that a person be removed from the checklist based on evidence that the person is not qualified as a voter in the town or ward. This bill also authorizes the supervisors of the checklist to strike names from the checklist based on a report of change of address from the United States Postal Service, the department of safety, or the secretary of state.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
21mar06… 1085h
04/20/06 1800s
06-2898
03/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Six
AN ACT relative to removing names from the checklist.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
243:1 New Sections; Periodic Maintenance and Verification of Checklists; Request to Correct the Checklist; Reports of Change of Address. Amend RSA 654 by inserting after section 36 the following new sections:
654:36-a Request to Correct the Checklist.
I. A supervisor of the checklist, the town or city clerk, or any other person, may submit a request for correction of the checklist to the supervisors of the checklist or to the town or city clerk based upon evidence that a person listed on the checklist is not qualified as a voter in the town or ward. The clerk shall forward requests for correction of the checklist to the supervisors of the checklist. At the next session of the supervisors, they shall examine the requests and determine whether or not it is more likely than not that the person’s qualifications are in doubt.
II. If the supervisors of the checklist determine that it is more likely than not that the person’s qualifications are in doubt, they shall send a notice to the person and afford the person at least 30 days to provide proof of his or her qualifications. If the person fails to respond to the 30-day notice or responds but fails to provide proof that establishes that it is more likely than not that the person is qualified to vote in the town or ward, the person’s name shall be removed from the checklist.
654:36-b Reports of Change of Address If the supervisors of the checklist receive a report from the United States Postal Service or the department of safety directly or as communicated by the secretary of state through the centralized voter registration database that a voter has permanently changed his or her address to another town, city, or state, they shall strike that name from the checklist at the next session for the correction of the checklist. As an alternative, the supervisors of the checklist may first send a 30-day notice letter and then shall remove the name from the checklist if the voter does not respond to that notice.
243:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
Approved: June 1, 2006
Effective: July 31, 2006