Posted on 07/21/2018 5:28:12 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) has signed a controversial measure that will limit the number of college students and military personnel who can vote in state elections.
The bill, signed on Friday and a source of partisan bickering in the statehouse for years, will require registered voters be permanent residents of New Hampshire, obtain a state driver’s license within 60 days of voting and register their vehicles in New Hampshire.
The new law will take effect in 2019.
New Hampshire is the only U.S. state that does not require registered voters to be permanent residents in order to cast a ballot. The rule allows thousands of college and university students who study in the Granite State to cast votes in the precinct where they live, even if they remain residents of another state, so long as they do not also vote in their home states.
Republicans have been frustrated by the influx of student voters, who tend to back Democratic candidates, especially as the state has become one of the most closely fought battlegrounds in the country.
Hillary Clinton beat President Trump in New Hampshire by just 3,000 votes, or about 0.3 percentage points, in 2016. Sen. Maggie Hassan (D) defeated now-former Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R) by just 1,000 votes that same year.
Sununu, who in 2016 was seeking to replace Hassan in the governor’s mansion, won in a relative landslide, beating his Democratic rival by 17,000 votes, or 2.3 percentage points.
Voters between the ages of 18 and 29 favored Democratic candidates in all three races, according to exit polls.
Though the measure won support from Republicans in the state legislature, Sununu had said he was skeptical that it was constitutional.
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Yeah, and I'm sure all the New Hampshire voting students follow that rule. < / sarcasm >
*Looks up MSM to English translation guide*
Controversial -adj : great, kick-ass, wonderful
Trump would have won New Hampshire in an honest election
The demons wont like this
Finally!! An end to the watering down of the New Hampshire electorate by outsiders!
The purpose of this for years (at least on the republican side) was to give the most moderate-liberal candidates momentum in presidential primaries.
New Hampshire is a special case. They get half their students from MA, which is deep red, so why vote there...instead the students register in NH and, as we see, affect the outcome of elections, costing us a precious Senate seat in 2016. The law, up until now, is that they had to state that they ‘intend’ to live in NH. Total BS, since they could ‘change their minds’, which 95%, of course, do, once they leave college.
Just apply the same residency rules for determining in-state tuition to these Leftists and the problem is solved.
Some judge overturning this in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
Cause Judges overturn everything for whatever reason and I say this as a lawyer.
Controversial? Only to liberals.....
It’s only *controversial* to the left to whom anything tat disagrees with them is considered *controversial.
The rest of us say, *It’s about .... time*.
The election laws used to consider students to be temporary residents. If they voted, they voted in the state they came from.
In 1972 the one year residency requirement in Tennesse was struck down by the Supreme Court.
The decision expanded the franchise to temporary visitors. It created the reliably leftist power centers of University towns.
The Pentagon get real touchy about states interfering with military personnel’s right to vote. In war, soldiers get killed trying to deliver ballots to other soldiers, so it is taken very seriously.
New Hampshire is a small state in population so by allowing students from larger surrounding states to vote there, potentially gives the 'rats 2 additional Senate seats 4 additional electoral votes.
The democrats are upset that they cannot commit voter fraud as easily as they did. Meanwhile in California the democrats are allowing illegals to vote!
Head of household, property owners was once a pretty good method...
It's amazing that it took the NH Legislature so long to realize that long-term it's not good to have college students and MA liberals deciding their elections.
On one of my deployments, I worked in the postal service after the 2008 election. We received hundreds, if not thousands, of ballots after the election. While we had to keep a tally, all these service members were effectively disenfranchised. It was frustrating that those who defend our Constitution are often the last to enjoy its benefit.
While the APO has always had problems, the Secretaries of State should be able to provide the ballots in a timely manner. The military does make an effort to ensure members are able to vote, but ultimately they’re at the mercy of the States—most of which are run by individuals put into office by Soros funds. SOS is an often-overlooked position in state races, but they have an outsized effect on elections. We need honest people in these positions.
You mean deep blue, right?
One question. What about ex pats whose home of record is NH and is living/working overseas. Some have lived away from home state for years with local country drivers licenses.
When I went to vote in November 2016, the car in front of me in the line to park had Massachusetts plates.
Six hippie wannabes got out with backpacks and went in to vote. I told the police officer, who told me that a) they were probably UNH students and that b) all they had to do was to state intention to live in NH and they were legal.
Whether or not they also vote in MA is unimportant. They are not part of our political community, they should have no voice in our representation. AT A MINIMUM they should have to register their cars, pay the associated property tax, and get NH driver’s licenses. This would eliminate thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of out-of-state voters.
THERE IS NO QUESTION that Trump would have won NH without these quasi-illegal votes. There is also no question that our two Senators would be Republicans instead of Democrats.
And, sad to say, there is also no question that dummy Sununu would be more popular if he would jump on the Trump train instead of hanging around at the station hoping to attract rich white liberals.
It would be a simple matter to spot-check students, and see if they voted in NH and also at their home address. A few high-profile prosecutions would discourage that.
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