Revision: March 8, 2016, midnight
\t \t\tHB 1378 - AS INTRODUCED
2016 SESSION
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HOUSE BILL\t1378
AN ACT\trelative to disabled voters requiring assistance.
SPONSORS:\tRep. Fields, Belk. 4
COMMITTEE:\tElection Law
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ANALYSIS
\tThis authorizes a disabled voter who is unable to access a polling place to vote with an absentee ballot.
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Explanation:\tMatter added to current law appears in bold italics.
\t\tMatter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
\t\tMatter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen
AN ACT\trelative to disabled voters requiring assistance.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
\t1 New Section; Assistance in Voting; Disabled Voter. Amend RSA 659 by inserting after section 20 the following new section:
\t659:20-a Assistance in Voting; Disabled Voter. Any voter who declares to the moderator under oath that said voter is unable to access a polling place due to physical disability, after appearing at the polling place location to vote in person shall, upon the voter's request, have an absentee ballot delivered to the voter outside the guardrail by the town or ward clerk. The absentee ballot delivered by the town or ward clerk shall be delivered and processed using the same procedures as any other absentee ballot except that the voter shall be treated on the marked checklist as having voted in person.
\t2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.