Bill Text - HB1528 (2010)

(2nd New Title) relative to observing voter check-in, relative to challenged voter affidavits, and ratifying certain actionsof the Salem school district.


Revision: May 27, 2010, midnight

CHAPTER 103

HB 1528 – FINAL VERSION

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2010 SESSION

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HOUSE BILL 1528

AN ACT relative to observing voter check-in, relative to challenged voter affidavits, and ratifying certain actions of the Salem school district.

SPONSORS: Rep. Pierce, Graf 9

COMMITTEE: Election Law

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill:

I. Prohibits standing or sitting within 6 feet of the ballot clerk to observe voter check-in without the permission of the moderator.

II. Eliminates the authorization for a challenged voter to vote after filling out and signing a qualified voter affidavit and modifies the wording of the challenged voter affidavit.

III. Ratifies certain actions taken at the 2010 Salem school district meeting.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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10-2389

03/04

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Ten

AN ACT relative to observing voter check-in, relative to challenged voter affidavits, and ratifying certain actions of the Salem school district.

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

103:1 New Section; Observing Voter Check-In. Amend RSA 659 by inserting after section 13 the following new section:

659:13-a Observing Voter Check-In. No person not authorized by law may stand or sit within 6 feet of the ballot clerk for purposes of observing the check-in of voters without the express permission of the moderator.

103:2 Challenge of Voter; Affidavit. Amend RSA 659:27 to read as follows:

659:27 Challenge of Voter; Affidavit. Any voter at any state election may challenge any other voter offering to vote at such election, and the moderator shall not receive the vote of the person so challenged until he or she shall sign and give to the moderator an affidavit in the following form: I, ____________________, do solemnly swear (or affirm), under penalties of voter fraud, that I am the identical person whom I represent myself to be, that I am a duly qualified voter of this town (or ward) and have a legal domicile therein. [In the alternative, a challenged voter may fill out and sign a qualified voter affidavit.]

103:3 Ratification of Salem School District Meeting. All acts, notices, and proceedings at the annual Salem school district meeting held on February 4, 2010 and March 9, 2010, and the public hearing held on January 14, 2010, concerning Article 2, a bond for the construction and equipping of additions and renovations to Barron, Lancaster, and North Salem Elementary Schools, which passed by more than the required 3/5 vote, are hereby legalized, ratified, and confirmed.

103:4 Effective Date.

I. Sections 1-2 of this act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

II. The remainder of this act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved: May 26, 2010

Effective Date: I. Sections 1-2 shall take effect July 25, 2010.

II. Remainder shall take effect May 26, 2010.