Under a new NH voting law, the right to a secret ballot is no longer guaranteed

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https://www.vermontpublic.org/2024-05-22/one-casualty-of-nhs-new-voting-rules-the-right-to-a-secret-ballot

(5:38 min audio at link)

Under a new NH voting law, the right to a secret ballot is no longer guaranteed

New Hampshire Public Radio | By Todd Bookman
Published May 22, 2024 at 4:50 PM EDT



Annabelle Rogers, 18, voted using an affidavit ballot. Her voting preferences later became public record.

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Every other person who voted that day in Hopkinton — and in elections across the state — was afforded a secret ballot, a bedrock of American democracy that ensures participants in elections are free from intimidation or coercion.

But because of a relatively new and little used state law, Rogers was handed a different ballot. Hers was numbered, and trackable. If she didn’t return proof of eligibility within seven days, her vote wouldn’t count — and the candidates she chose on her ballot that day could become publicly available information, without her knowledge or consent.

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Some people warned about this very consequence — the disclosure of individual voters' ballot choices — when the law was up for debate at the State House.

The Republican-backed law signed by Gov. Chris Sununu in 2022 launched the use of provisional ballots for first-time voters who don’t have proper identification when they register at the polls.

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[AllaN01Bear]

1. why isnt these people being sued .?

[hlthe2b]

2. This is so wrong... A'holes like Trump can use this to deny jobs and other retribution toward

non-supporters.

So, damned wrong.

[AZ8theist]

5. I would LOVE to be denied a job by the treasonous pig.....

...as if I would ever apply to work for the asshole in the first place....

[hlthe2b]

6. No one is talking about working FOR him--but every governmental job--either Federal or

State, Local (where MAGATS are in charge)--or private company owned/operated by MAGATS... This is not a stretch. It is the Fascist playbook. Self-employed? Who do you think will contract with you, do business with you if Trump's 2025 plans were fully realized?

[AZ8theist]

7. Yeah, I get it....

I was being sarcastic.

NOBODY wants this fascist bullshit anymore. AT ANY LEVEL.

It's almost comical when jerk-offs like Bannon complain about the so-called "deep state".
When they actively want a fascist, authoritarian religious dictatorship. The very definition of "deep state".

So, as long as the scumbags are IN CHARGE, it is OK.

[Think. Again.]

3. Could have made this story very short by simply writing...

..."New Hampshire rightwingers wrote an election law."

Everyone who reads that would immediately know that election integrity in New Hampshire is being undermined and it has now become a risk to your personal safety and privacy to vote.

Nothing else really needs to be said.

[Joinfortmill]

4. Some folks think Sununu is not that bad. They're wrong. He is.