Bill Text - HB146 (2019)

Relative to the counting of defective ballots.


Revision: May 28, 2019, 3:11 p.m.

HB 146 - VERSION ADOPTED BY BOTH BODIES

 

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2019 SESSION

19-0081

11/05

 

HOUSE BILL 146

 

AN ACT relative to the counting of defective ballots.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Belanger, Hills. 27; Rep. Beaulieu, Hills. 45; Sen. Gray, Dist 6

 

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

 

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AMENDED ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires that a ballot shall be counted in any municipal vote if the intent of the voter can be determined, regardless of whether the voter followed any voting instructions issued prior to the vote.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nineteen

 

AN ACT relative to the counting of defective ballots.

 

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

 

1  New Section; Conduct of Voting; Intent of the Voter.  Amend RSA 40 by inserting after section 4-f the following new section:

40:4-g  Intent of the Voter.  In any vote conducted pursuant to this chapter, every ballot shall be counted if the intent of the voter can be determined, regardless of whether the voter followed any instructions relative to marking the ballot provided before the vote.

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