HB 249 – AS INTRODUCED
2005 SESSION
03/09
HOUSE BILL 249
AN ACT relative to delivery of absentee ballots to city or town clerks.
SPONSORS: Rep. Vaillancourt, Hills 15
This bill permits certain family members to deliver absentee ballots to city or town clerks.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
05-0365
03/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Five
AN ACT relative to delivery of absentee ballots to city or town clerks.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Absentee Voting; Procedure by Voter. Amend RSA 657:17 to read as follows:
657:17 Procedure by Voter. After marking the ballot, the voter or the person assisting a blind voter shall enclose and seal the same in the affidavit envelope. The voter shall execute the affidavit on it. The voter or the person assisting the blind voter shall enclose and seal said envelope in the return envelope. The voter shall then endorse thereon his or her name, address, and voting place and shall mail the envelope, affixing postage, or personally deliver it, or have his or her spouse, mother, father, daughter, son, sister, or brother personally deliver it, to the city or town clerk from whom it was sent.
2 Absentee Voting; Procedure by Voter. Amend RSA 657:20 to read as follows:
657:20 Procedure by Voter. After marking his or her ballot, an armed services voter or a federal overseas citizen voter shall seal the same in the affidavit envelope. If he or she is a registered voter, [he] the voter shall execute the appropriate affidavit and return the ballot as hereinafter provided. If the voter is not registered in the town in which he or she desires to vote, [he]the voter shall execute the appropriate affidavit. If the armed services voter or federal overseas citizen voter, because of blindness or other physical disability, is unable to mark [his] the ballot, an official empowered to administer oaths may assist him or her to mark [his] the ballot as directed by the voter. The official shall then certify on the outside thereof that it was marked with his or her assistance and shall thereafter give no information regarding the same. Having executed the affidavit, the voter shall enclose and seal said envelope in the return envelope. [He] The voter shall then endorse thereon his or her name, address, and voting place and shall mail the envelope or personally deliver it, or have his or her spouse, mother, father, daughter, son, sister, or brother personally deliver it, to the city or town clerk from whom it was sent.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.