But Rep. Barbara Griffin, a Republican from Goffstown who chaired the House Election Law Committee, says New Hampshire was the only state in the country that did not require voters to be legal residents, which she says led to confusion.
A controversial new residency law in New Hampshire is creating confusion, and has led to charges of voter suppression and a legal challenge.
What proportion of the 95,000 voter records flagged in Texas will eventually prove to be genuine cases of illegal registrations by non-citizens remains to be seen.
The PILF says that’s a misreading of the law. The group has released reports in the past detailing more than 1,000 noncitizens registered to vote in New Jersey and more than 5,500 registered in Virginia. Roughly a third of those from Virginia actually cast ballots.
Gerrymandering has prevented fulfillment of the the 15th Amendment through private associations and exclusion of African Americans.
It's up to you whether you want to share your choices with others. There's no law preventing someone from asking you who you voted for.
This “act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution” was signed into law 95 years after the amendment was ratified. In those years, African Americans in the South faced tremendous obstacles to voting, including poll taxes, literacy tests, and other bureaucratic restrictions to deny them the right to vote.
Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.
The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.
Passed by Congress February 26, 1869, and ratified February 3, 1870, the 15th Amendment granted African American men the right to vote.
Contents. The Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Democrats and Republicans from the Southern states opposed the bill and led an unsuccessful 60 working day filibuster, including Senators Albert Gore, Sr. (D-TN) and J. William Fulbright (D-AR), as well as Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV), who personally filibustered for 14 hours straight.
Twenty-fourth Amendment, amendment (1964) to the Constitution of the United States that prohibited the federal and state governments from imposing poll taxes before a citizen could participate in a federal election.
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
The word democracy does not appear at all in the Constitution. DID YOU KNOW? One of the most glaring mistakes in the Constitution is the misspelling of “Pensylvania” above the signers' names. The Constitution was “penned” by Jacob Shallus, a Pennsylvania General Assembly clerk, for a fee of $30 ($325.29 today).
Equal Protection refers to the idea that a governmental body may not deny people equal protection of its governing laws. The governing body state must treat an individual in the same manner as others in similar conditions and circumstances.
Last week, Judicial Watch sent letters to election officials in 19 counties in five states – California, Colorado, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Virginia – warning that they could face a federal lawsuit for their failure to update voter rolls. Eleven of the 19 counties are located in California, which has had habitual problems updating its ...
Another issue raised by Judicial Watch is the number of inactive registrations, such as when a voter hasn’t voted in successive elections or has failed to respond to state inquiries asking them to confirm their address and otherwise validate their registration.
The issue of cleaning up voter rolls has become acute over the last year in part due to a 2018 Supreme Court decision, Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute. While the decision upheld the state of Ohio’s specific provisions for determining which voter registrations are inactive or invalid, the high court’s decision also clarified the intent of the NVRA’s provisions to keep voter rolls accurate.
Eleven of the 19 counties are located in California, which has had habitual problems updating its voter rolls. Last year, Los Angeles County settled a lawsuit and agreed to clean up its voter rolls after Judicial Watch revealed that it had 1.6 million more voter registrations on file than the eligible voting population in the county. As of last year, the entire state of California had a voter registration rate of 101%.
This issue arises every election cycle and our past guidance remains the same. The New Hampshire Constitution provides “All persons have the right to keep and bear arms in defense of themselves, their families, their property and the state.” Part 1, Article 2-a. There are no state election laws governing carrying of a firearm in a polling place. Voters should not be prevented from voting based on possession of a firearm. There are also no New Hampshire election laws that prohibit a voter from carrying a firearm into a polling place that is located at a school.
RSA 659:43, II, Distributing Campaign Materials at Polling Place. “The moderator shall establish one or more no-electioneering corridors, no less than 10 feet wide , that extend from all entrances of the polling place a reasonable distance along the sidewalks or to the parking lots that serve the polling place. The moderator shall establish the corridor in a manner that permits a voter arriving or leaving the polling place to enter or exit without interruption or interference from individuals outside the corridor, and that permits a voter to step to the edge of the corridor and speak with those electioneering if he or she chooses. Laws of 2020, Chapter 45.” Moderators should also be alert to safety concerns with respect to electioneering taking place in the parking lot and request law enforcement assistance to promote safety in the parking lot.
The Attorney General’s Office and Secretary of State’s Office are the official resources available to all New Hampshire voters and election officials for guidance and assistance regarding election related issues or concerns ahead of the General Election on November 3, 2020.
When voters enter the polling place, they should immediately be directed to the correct table/election official for checking-in or registering. To that end, election officials should utilize clearly marked signage and/or a “Greeter” that can assist voters entering the polling place find where they need to go.
On August 20, 2020, the Attorney General published guidance that the Moderator is responsible for determining whether or not face coverings/masks will be required to enter the polling place. We strongly encourage officials to review this guidance, which can be found here:
Pursuant to joint guidance issued by our offices, election officials can utilize a “dropbox” at the polling place on Election Day, staffed by an election official, to receive completed absentee ballots. We strongly encourage official to review that joint guidance, which can be
The Secretary of State, Attorney General, and Commissioner of the Department of Safety have published the attached Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on their respective websites. Clerks, Supervisors, and Moderators are encouraged to print this document. If asked any of these questions, use the answer provided.
On statewide election days, the New Hampshire Attorney General sends attorneys and investigators from the office to inspect polling places for compliance with New Hampshire election laws. These individuals are in contact with attorneys at the Attorney General's Office so that they can respond to issues that arise throughout any given statewide election. Candidate campaigns may make complaints concerning alleged violations of election laws prior to, during and after an election by calling the Civil Bureau at (603) 271-3650 or the Election Hotline at 1-866-868-3703.
A push-poll must: inform the recipient who the telephone call is being made on behalf of, in support of, or in opposition to a particular candidate for public office; and. identify the candidate by name; and. provide a telephone number from where the push-polling is being conducted .
In addition to the available criminal penalties for violating RSA chapter 664, the Legislature has established a civil penalty of up to $1,000 per violation for "removing, defacing, or destroying political advertising on private property." RSA 664:21, VI (a)- (b).
More than 100,000 noncitizens are registered to vote in Pennsylvania alone, according to testimony submitted Monday in a lawsuit demanding the state come clean about the extent of its problems.
The numbers only include people whose registration was canceled because they later said they weren’t citizens, and thus ineligible to vote. Analysts say it’s difficult to figure out how many others are registered but never discovered because they don’t self-report.
But Mr. Trump disbanded the commission amid a series of lawsuits and questions over the panel’s activities.
He said Pennsylvania had already admitted to a “glitch” dating back to the 1990s that had allowed noncitizens applying to renew driver’s licenses to be offered the chance to register to vote. Mr. Adams said he now wants to find out how bad the problem is overall.
The 100,000 number cited in the lawsuit comes from testimony given by Philadelphia Commissioner Al Schmidt, who revealed the glitch in the state motor vehicle bureau’s systems that prompted noncitizens to register to vote.
While Pennsylvania refused PILF record requests, the group did manage to obtain data from some counties, and found several curious cases.
The secretary of state’s spokesman did not provide annual totals of complaints filed with the office for the past several years. The spokesman did say 238 election complaints were filed between Oct. 5, 2019 and Oct. 5, 2020.
Just two weeks later, Paxton’s office announced another large fraud arrest centered on mail-in ballots. Denton County law enforcement arrested Zul Mirza Mohamed on 109 felony counts of mail ballot application fraud and unlawful possession of an official mail ballot.
Paxton dismissed the assertion that the timing of the Gregg County indictments was to help sway public opinion as to whether large-scale voter fraud existed and could risk swaying elections.
The jury found Ortega guilty of two counts of voter fraud and ordered her to pay a $5,000 fine, along with serving eight years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Brewer’s stunt didn’t make any difference in the race. Kimbrough still lost by 161 votes.
The standard Ingram is supposed to use in making his determinations lies in the Texas Election Code. The threshold for determining whether a complaint is forwarded for investigation is met once Ingram finds “reasonable cause to suspect that the alleged criminal conduct occurred,” according to Sec. 31.006 of the Elections Code.
The vast majority of cases were settled through plea agreements with the attorney general.
Texas discovered that 58,000 ineligible non-citizens illegally registered and voted in one or more elections in the state.
Secretary of State David Whitley issued an advisory to county voter registrars noting that his office was flagging voter registrations of persons who had provided the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) with forms of documentation (such as a work visa or green card) indicating they were not citizens at the time they applied for a driver’s licenses or ID cards. This process identified some 95,000 individuals, of whom about 58,000 had cast a ballot in one or more elections between 1996 to 2018.
Any illegal vote deprives Americans of their voice. — Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) January 25, 2019. Predictably, one group quickly seized on this announcement as proof that large-scale voter fraud was taking place — including President Trump: 58,000 non-citizens voted in Texas, with 95,000 non-citizens registered to vote.
District Judge Fred Biery of San Antonio blocked the removal of any voters and, according to his ruling, only 80 of the original 98,000 names on the list had been identified as ineligible to vote. Later, the New York Times reported that the Texas secretary of state agreed to rescind the advisory from January 2019.
Officials in five large counties — Harris, Travis, Fort Bend, Collin and Williamson — told The Texas Tribune they had received calls from the secretary of state’s office indicating that some of the voters whose citizenship status the state said counties should consider checking should not actually be on those lists.
It’s possible that individuals flagged by the state — who provided DPS with documentation that indicated they were authorized to be in the country — could have become naturalized citizens since they obtained their driver’s license or ID card. A spokesman for the secretary of state said officials are “very confident” that the data received from DPS is “current.”
The secretary of state’s office incorrectly included some voters who had submitted their voting registration applications at Texas Department of Public Safety offices, according to county officials. Now, the secretary of state is instructing counties to remove them from the list of flagged voters.