New Hampshire Ballot Access Bill to be Introduced Next Month

In January, New Hampshire Representative Tim Comerford (R-Fremont) will introduce a bill to set up a two-tier system of qualified parties.  A group that polls 2% for Governor or U.S. Senator would be a qualified convention party, and a group that polls 4% for Governor or U.S. Senator would be a qualified party that nominates by primary.

The bill will also make it possible for voters to register as members of unqualified parties, and election administrators would recognize those registrations and keep a tally.  Currently, the New Hampshire voter registration form has a blank line in the question about political party choice.  But even though any voter can write in the name of an unqualified party, elections officials treat such voters as independents.

New Hampshire is the only New England state in which only the Democratic and Republican Parties are ballot-qualified.  During the last 90 years, New Hampshire has never granted qualified status to any party, other than the two big parties, except that the Libertarian Party was qualified from November 1990 to November 1996.

Representative Comerford was elected in 2008 at the age of 22.  He is on the Election Law Committee in the House.


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New Hampshire Ballot Access Bill to be Introduced Next Month — 2 Comments

  1. Separate is NOT equal

    Brown v. Bd of Ed 1954 — even in very little NH in the little New England States.

    How many database info categories in the BAN archives / super-computer ??? More or less than a zillion ???

  2. Also – every election is NEW and has ZERO to do with any prior history back to Adam and Eve — regardless of super-MORON party hack SCOTUS folks.

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