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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“””What about ex pats”””
Probably not enough of them to matter.
I have a very Leftist cousin-in-law who lived his adult life in Illinois. When he and his wife retired, they moved to France.
Instead of registering to vote as an expat from Illinois, my leftist relative opted to register in Florida because his leftist vote would be more valuable in Florida than in Illinois.
Exactly. Just tell them to go back home and vote, or get an absentee ballot.
This still has no teeth. Who follows up after 60 days to see if they did what they were supposed to? This will change nothing.
Voter ID, purple fingers and death penalty for voter fraud. That is how you fix it.
This is the same stupid argument used to rationalize allowing ILLEGALs to vote "only in local school board elections"......
Yep - he was winning NH - and then they hurriedly bussed on the needed amount of voters t win - Which has been par for the course for NHfoe many elections -
This is a good step
Used to be, way back when, one had to be registered at least 6 months before they could vote - that gave time to verify legitimacy
Whoops, thanks. Obviously!
Yep it has a HUGE EFFECT on the direction of the country, having Leftists from NH, and it destroys the Great Compromise. If these clowns really want to vote in NH, fine, then MOVE THERE!
I know that when I went to college at ESU as an out of state person, their attitude was, rightly, “kiss my ass” if you’re going to claim in-state, not even close. There were basically 2 ways to be in-state (assuming that you came right from high school). Get married or buy a house. And, as we know, millennials don’t do either.
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