Bill Text - HB1348 (2024)

(New Title) governing the application for a ballot recount in a state general election.


Revision: Dec. 6, 2023, 1:20 p.m.

HB 1348  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2024 SESSION

24-2190

08/10

 

HOUSE BILL 1348

 

AN ACT relative to polling places at which total ballot counts exceed the total number of registered voters.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Weyler, Rock. 14; Rep. Ammon, Hills. 42; Rep. Erf, Hills. 28; Sen. Gannon, Dist 23

 

COMMITTEE: Election Law

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill negates election results at polling places at which total ballot counts exceed the total number of registered voters.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

24-2190

08/10

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT relative to polling places at which total ballot counts exceed the total number of registered voters.

 

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

 

1  New Section; Negation of Elections.  Amend RSA 659 by inserting after section 65 the following new section:

659:65-a  Negation of Elections.  In any polling place where the moderator reports a total ballot count which exceeds the number of registered voters in the town or ward, including voters registered on the day of the election, shall have the election result negated and not counted in any other affected totals including state or federal offices.

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