**[Requirements for Serving as a Pollworker]{.underline}**

**[New Hampshire]{.underline}**

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| **[State Registration Requirement]{.underline}**                      |
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| **[(Exceptions may be found in Student Election Assistant             |
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| Must be registered voter.                                             |
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| *N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 658:3 (Thomson/West 2006).*                   |
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| **[Age Requirement]{.underline}**                                     |
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| 18 years for inspectors and assistant election officials in general.  |
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| *N. H. Const. part. 1, art. 11(Thomson/West 2006).*                   |
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| 17 years for assistant election officials appointed to central        |
| polling place in state elections.                                     |
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| *N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 658:7-a; N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. §               |
| 658:7(Thomson/West 2006).*                                            |
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| **[Residency Place and Term Required for Voter                        |
| Registration]{.underline}**                                           |
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| State.                                                                |
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| *N. H. Const. part. 1, art. 11* *(Thomson/West 2006).*                |
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| Must establish domicile. An inhabitant\'s domicile for voting         |
| purposes is that one place where a person, more than any other place, |
| has established a physical presence and manifests intent to maintain  |
| a single continuous presence for domestic, social, and civil purposes |
| relevant to participating in democratic self-government.              |
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| *N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 654:1 (Thomson/West 2006).*                   |
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| Note: College students may choose as his/her voting domicile either   |
| the domicile he/she held before entering college or the domicile      |
| he/she has established while at college. Most other voters are only   |
| allowed to vote in the one municipality where they have the domicile  |
| where they spend most of their time and where they participate in     |
| civic activities and participate in government.                       |
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| [http://www.sos.nh.gov/college%20st                                   |
| udent%20letter.doc](http://www.sos.nh.gov/college student letter.doc) |
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| **[Residency Requirement for Service (State, County or                |
| Precinct)]{.underline}**                                              |
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| Voting District (polling place)                                       |
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| *N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 658:3; N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann § 658:11 -- 14     |
| (Thomson/West 2006).*                                                 |
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| **[Affiliation with Political Party Requirement]{.underline}**        |
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| **[and Process for Nomination as Poll Worker]{.underline}**           |
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| Affiliation Required for Inspectors; Not Required for Assistant       |
| Moderators and Assistant Town Clerks.                                 |
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| Moderator is the chief election officer in charge of the polls.       |
| (Elected position.)                                                   |
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| *N. H. Constitution, Part 2, Article 32; N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 659:9 |
| (Thomson/West 2006).*                                                 |
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| For help in central polling place in state elections, moderator may   |
| appoint an assistant moderator and such other election officials as   |
| he deems necessary. Town clerk, upon request of the moderator, may    |
| appoint an assistant town clerk.                                      |
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| *N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 658:7 (Thomson/West 2006).*                   |
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| For each additional polling place, moderator shall appoint an         |
| assistant moderator and the town clerk shall appoint an assistant     |
| clerk.                                                                |
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| *N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 658:14 (Thomson/West 2006).*                  |
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| The town or ward political committee for the two political committees |
| which cast the largest number of voters for governor in the last      |
| general election may appoint 2 or 3 inspectors between September 15   |
| and October 15 of each general election year (depending on size of    |
| polling place.) Additional inspectors may also be appointed, equally  |
| divided between the two political parties, as the moderator finds     |
| necessary.                                                            |
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| *N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 658:2 (Thomson/West 2006).*                   |
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| **[Term Requirements]{.underline}**                                   |
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| Two years from November 1 in the year in which the Inspector is       |
| appointed or until a successor is appointed and qualified.            |
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| *N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 658:4 (Thomson/West 2006).*                   |
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| The term of office of assistant election officials appointed to       |
| central polling place shall expire at the termination of the          |
| proceedings at the election for which he was appointed.               |
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| *N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. §658:8 (Thomson/West 2006).*                    |
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| **[Compensation and Hour Requirements]{.underline}**                  |
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| No Information Available.                                             |
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| **[Training, Certification and Oath Requirements]{.underline}**       |
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| The secretary of state shall prepare, by June 1 preceding each state  |
| general election, an up-to-date manual on the New Hampshire election  |
| laws and procedures for conducting elections. The manual shall be     |
| distributed free of charge to each moderator, board of selectmen,     |
| city council, board of supervisors of the checklist and to each town, |
| city and ward clerk.                                                  |
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| *N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 652:22 (Thomson/West 2006).*                  |
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| Oath required.                                                        |
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| *N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. 42:1; N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 658:4 & 7          |
| (Thomson/West 2006).*                                                 |
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| **[Elected Public Officials Prohibited]{.underline}**                 |
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| There are several offices in town government for which a person may   |
| not serve while holding another office. The relevant ones are:        |
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| • No person shall at the same time hold any two of the following      |
| offices: town treasurer, moderator, trustee of trust funds,           |
| selectman, and head of any police department on full time duty.       |
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| • No selectman, moderator, town clerk or inspector of election shall  |
| at the same time serve as supervisor of the checklist.                |
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| *N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 669:7 (Thomson/West 2006).*                   |
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| **[Candidates Prohibited]{.underline}**                               |
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| No candidates other than election officials who are running for a     |
| position as an election official.                                     |
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| *N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 658:24 (Thomson/West 2006).*                  |
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| **[The Effect of Felon Status on Participation]{.underline}**         |
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| Prohibited from the time of sentencing until discharge or parole.     |
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| *N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 607-A: 2 (Thomson/West 2006).*                |
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| Any person convicted of bribery or intimidation relating to elections |
| or any willful violation of the election law is forever disqualified  |
| from voting, seeking or holding public office, except that the        |
| supreme court may, on notice to the attorney general, restore the     |
| privileges of a voter to any person who may have forfeited them by    |
| conviction of such offenses.                                          |
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| *N. H. Const. part 1, Art. 11; N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. 654:6             |
| (Thomson/West 2006).*                                                 |
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| **[The Effect of Mental Incapacitation on                             |
| Participation]{.underline}**                                          |
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| No Constitutional or statutory prohibition found.                     |
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| **[English Fluency and Literacy Requirement]{.underline}**            |
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| No Information Available.                                             |
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| **[Good Reputation Requirement]{.underline}**                         |
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| No Information Available.                                             |
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| **[Alternative Positions with Different Requirements]{.underline}**   |
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| No Information Available.                                             |
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| **[Student Election Assistant Statute]{.underline}**                  |
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| Assistant election official must be 17 years of age and appointed to  |
| central polling place in state elections.                             |
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| *N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 658:7-a; N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 658:7         |
| (Thomson/West 2006).*                                                 |
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