Bill Text - HB1136 (2024)

Relative to requiring a reconciliation of votes cast and undervotes with the total of ballots cast.


Revision: Nov. 28, 2023, 11:45 a.m.

HB 1136  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2024 SESSION

24-2727

08/05

 

HOUSE BILL 1136

 

AN ACT relative to requiring a reconciliation of votes cast and undervotes with the total of ballots cast.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Andrus, Merr. 5; Rep. See, Merr. 26

 

COMMITTEE: Election Law

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires a reconciliation of votes cast and undervotes with the total of ballots cast.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

24-2727

08/05

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT relative to requiring a reconciliation of votes cast and undervotes with the total of ballots cast.

 

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

 

1  New Subparagraph; General Content of Return; Ballot Reconciliation.  Amend RSA 659:73, IV by inserting after subparagraph (l) the following new subparagraph:

(m) For each contest or ballot question, a reconciliation of votes and undervotes with the total ballots cast.

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