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NH Rev Stat § 659:82 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 659 - Election Procedure|Section 659:82 - Declaration of State Representatives-Elect From Representative District Containing Only One Town or Ward.

    659:82 Declaration of State Representatives-Elect From Representative District Containing Only One Town or Ward. –||In a state representative district containing only one town or ward, the moderator of such town or ward shall declare state representatives-elect from such district.|||Source. 1979, 436:1, eff. July 1, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 659:83 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 659 - Election Procedure|Section 659:83 - Certificate of Election Blanks.

    659:83 Certificate of Election Blanks. –||The secretary of state shall prepare certificate of election blanks before any state general election and shall retain the appropriate blanks for his own use.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1994, 366:2, eff. Aug. 8, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 659:84 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 659 - Election Procedure|Section 659:84 - Certificates of Election.

    659:84 Certificates of Election. –||When the time for any recount or appeal to the ballot law commission or superior court has expired or when all candidates for an office whose names were placed on the official state general election ballot have waived in writing a recount and an appeal, whichever is first:||I. The governor shall issue certificates of election to the following officers-elect:||(a) Electors of the president and vice-president of the United States;||(b) United States senator;||(c) United States representatives.||II. The secretary of state shall issue certificates of election to the following officers-elect:||(a) State senators;||(b) State representatives;||(c) County officers.||III. [Repealed.]|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1991, 254:10, 12, eff. Aug. 9, 1991.|
NH Rev Stat § 659:85 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 659 - Election Procedure|Section 659:85 - Election to Incompatible Offices.

    659:85 Election to Incompatible Offices. –||If, upon the conclusion of the canvass of votes in any state general election, any person shall have received the largest number of votes for 2 or more incompatible offices, the secretary of state shall notify the candidate of that fact. Thereupon, the candidate shall, within 10 days, notify the secretary of state of which office he intends to accept. The secretary of state shall then declare that person elected to that office and declare vacant the other offices for which the person received a sufficient number of votes to win. Such a vacancy shall be filled as provided by RSA 661.|||Source. 1979, 436:1, eff. July 1, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 659:86 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 659 - Election Procedure|Section 659:86 - Canvass and Declaration Generally.

    659:86 Canvass and Declaration Generally. –||Except as provided in RSA 659:87, when, for each political party having an official state primary election ballot, the secretary of state has received the returns for a nomination from all towns or wards comprising the elective district for that office, he shall examine, record and total such returns and, for each political party, shall declare nominated for the office the same number of persons as the number of officers to which the district is entitled; provided that those persons declared nominated for the office shall be those persons who, on each party ballot, received the highest number of votes cast for the office, except as provided in RSA 659:91.|||Source. 1979, 436:1, eff. July 1, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 659:87 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 659 - Election Procedure|Section 659:87 - Declaration of Nominees for Office of State Representative From District Containing Only One Town or Ward.

    659:87 Declaration of Nominees for Office of State Representative From District Containing Only One Town or Ward. –||In a state representative district containing only one town or ward, the moderator of such town or ward shall, for each political party having an official state primary election ballot, declare nominees for the office of state representative from such district.|||Source. 1979, 436:1, eff. July 1, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 659:88 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 659 - Election Procedure|Section 659:88 - Write-In Votes and Nomination.

    659:88 Write-In Votes and Nomination. –||I. (a) A person whose name was not printed on the official state primary election ballot of a political party shall not be entitled to the nomination of that party for any office unless the person received at least 35 write-in votes or write-in votes equaling 10 percent or more of the total votes cast for that party on the state primary election ballot, whichever is smaller.||(b) A person whose name was not printed anywhere on the official state primary election ballot, and who receives the nomination of a party by write-in vote in a primary election and wishes to accept the nomination, shall file a declaration of candidacy with the secretary of state no later than the first Monday after the primary. The declaration of candidacy shall be filed with the understanding that, where the form says "primary election," it shall be construed to mean "general election." Such person shall not, however, be required to pay the administrative assessment under RSA 655:19-c.||II. If a person is disqualified from a nomination in accordance with the provisions of paragraph I, then the nomination shall be awarded to the qualified person who received the highest number of votes, provided that person received at least 35 votes or votes equaling 10 percent or more of the total votes cast for that party on the state primary election ballot, whichever is smaller.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1981, 240:1. 1993, 187:1. 1994, 218:4. 2008, 142:1. 2010, 317:51. 2011, 150:6. 2012, 113:7, eff. May 31, 2012. 2020, 35:7, 8, eff. Sept. 26, 2020.|
NH Rev Stat § 659:89 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 659 - Election Procedure|Section 659:89 - Notice of Result.

    659:89 Notice of Result. –||After the declarations required by RSA 659:86 and 659:87 have been made, the secretary of state shall:||I. Send a certified list of all elected state convention delegates to each state party committee;||II. Notify in writing of his nomination each person nominated by write-in vote at the primary.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1981, 240:2. 1983, 426:17, eff. Aug. 23, 1983.|
NH Rev Stat § 659:90 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 659 - Election Procedure|Section 659:90 - Rejection of Nomination by Write-In Vote.

    659:90 Rejection of Nomination by Write-In Vote. –||Persons nominated by write-in vote who wish to reject the nomination shall reject their nominations as follows. A person notified in writing of his or her nomination by the secretary of state as required by RSA 659:89 shall advise the secretary of state in writing if he or she wishes to reject the nomination. If such rejection of nomination is not received by the secretary of state by the first Tuesday following the date of the primary, the person shall be deemed to have accepted the nomination, and his or her name shall appear on the official ballot as a candidate for the office. If for any reason the person cannot be contacted by the deadline for the printing of the ballots, the candidate's name shall be printed on the official state general election ballot.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1981, 240:3. 1983, 426:18. 1994, 4:18. 2010, 317:52. 2012, 113:8, eff. May 31, 2012.|
NH Rev Stat § 659:91 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 659 - Election Procedure|Section 659:91 - Nominations for Incompatible Offices.

    659:91 Nominations for Incompatible Offices. –||Any person who is nominated by the same political party for incompatible offices shall notify the secretary of state in person, in writing, by facsimile transmission, or by e-mailing a signed statement as an attachment no later than the Friday following the date of the primary of which nomination he or she will accept. Thereupon the secretary of state shall declare a vacancy to exist in the nomination which such person declined. The vacancy shall be filled as provided in RSA 655:37 except that all the necessary declarations of candidacy and affidavits shall be filed no later than 5:00 p.m. on the first Tuesday following the date of the primary.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1981, 240:4. 1983, 426:19. 1994, 4:19. 2010, 317:53. 2012, 113:9, eff. May 31, 2012.|
NH Rev Stat § 659:91-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 659 - Election Procedure|Section 659:91-a - Candidate of One Party.

    659:91-a Candidate of One Party. –||I. Any person who runs as a candidate on any party's state primary election ballot and who is not chosen as the candidate for that party for the elective office for which the person was a candidate shall not under any circumstances run as the nominee of a different party in the state general election.||II. Notwithstanding the provisions of RSA 655:37, if any candidate is disqualified from accepting the nomination of another party by means of write-in votes because the candidate is disqualified under the provisions of paragraph I, then the nomination shall be given to the candidate who received the highest number of write-in votes and who was not disqualified under the provisions of paragraph I, so long as he or she receives 35 write-in votes, or write-in votes equaling 10 percent or more of the total votes cast for that party on the state primary election ballot, whichever is the smaller.|||Source. 1983, 221:1; 429:2. 1986, 61:1. 1996, 36:10. 1999, 202:2. 2001, 231:10, eff. July 13, 2001. 2020, 35:9, eff. Sept. 26, 2020.|
NH Rev Stat § 659:92 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 659 - Election Procedure|Section 659:92 - Canvass; Publication.

    659:92 Canvass;  Publication. –||When, for each political party having an official presidential primary election ballot, the secretary of state has received the returns for the office of president from all towns and wards in the state, he shall examine, record and total such returns, which shall be a matter of public record.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1983, 426:10, eff. Aug. 23, 1983.|
NH Rev Stat § 659:93 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 659 - Election Procedure|Section 659:93 - Apportionment of Delegates; Notice.

    659:93 Apportionment of Delegates;  Notice. –||I. The secretary of state shall apportion delegates to the national party conventions among the candidates voted for at the presidential primary by determining the proportion of the number of votes cast for each presidential candidate to the total votes cast for all presidential candidates of the same political party, rounded to the nearest whole number.||II. A presidential candidate must receive at least 10 percent, before any rounding to the nearest whole number, of the total vote cast for all presidential candidates of his political party to be eligible for a share of the apportioned delegates.||III. In the event the apportionment of delegates according to paragraphs I and II leaves one or more delegates unassigned by the process of mathematical distribution, said delegates shall be apportioned to the presidential candidate of that party with the highest number of votes.||IV. Only one alternate for each delegate shall be authorized.||V. After determining the apportionment of delegates according to this section, the secretary of state shall send by mail notice to each candidate the number of delegates to which he is entitled pursuant to this section. The candidate shall within 10 days after notice is sent to him notify the secretary of state of which delegates and alternates on the list filed pursuant to RSA 655:50 that he chooses to be his delegation at the national convention. The secretary of state shall then notify by mail each delegate and alternate chosen by the candidate to support his candidacy at the national convention.||VI. If a presidential candidate has received a share of the delegates as a result of the presidential primary but withdraws as a presidential candidate at any time prior to the convention, his pledged delegates shall be released by the candidate and each delegate is free to support any candidate of his political party who may be his choice as a candidate for president.|||Source. 1979, 367:2; 436:1. 1981, 96:1, eff. June 19, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 659:94 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 659 - Election Procedure|Section 659:94 - Write-In Vote.

    659:94 Write-In Vote. –||If a presidential candidate receives as write-in votes 10 percent or more, before any rounding to the nearest whole number, of the total votes cast for all such candidates of a political party, the secretary of state shall so notify in writing the person; and the person shall then select the number of delegates and alternates to which he is entitled according to RSA 659:93 and such delegates and alternates shall file the certification provided for in RSA 655:51.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1981, 96:2, eff. June 19, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 659:95 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 659 - Election Procedure|Section 659:95 - Sealing and Certifying Ballots.

    659:95 Sealing and Certifying Ballots. –||I. Immediately after the ballots cast at a state election have been tabulated and the result has been announced and the return has been made, the moderator or the moderator's designee, in the presence of the selectmen or their designee, shall place the cast, cancelled, and uncast ballots, including such ballots from any additional polling places, and further including the successfully challenged and rejected absentee ballots still contained in their envelopes, in the containers provided by the secretary of state as required by RSA 659:97 and shall seal such container with the sealer provided by the secretary of state as required by RSA 659:97. The moderator or the moderator's designee shall then enter in the appropriate blanks on such sealer on each container the number of cast, cancelled, and uncast ballots in such container and shall endorse in the appropriate place on such sealer a certificate in substance as follows: Enclosed are the ballots from the state election in the town of _________ (or in ward _______________ in the city of _________________) held on __________, 20___, Box _____ of _____, to be preserved in accordance with RSA 33-A:3-a. The moderator and the selectmen or their designee shall sign their names in the appropriate blanks on the sealer.||II. Ballots, including cast, cancelled, and uncast ballots and successfully challenged and rejected absentee ballots still contained in their envelopes, prepared or preserved in accordance with the election laws shall be exempt from the provisions of RSA 91-A. This exemption shall apply to any ballots or absentee voter affidavits prepared for or used in any election conducted by the state or any political subdivision, including federal elections.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1985, 292:1. 2003, 289:60. 2010, 317:81, eff. Aug. 16, 2010 at 12:01 a.m.|
NH Rev Stat § 659:96 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 659 - Election Procedure|Section 659:96 - Ballots for Constitutional Amendments.

    659:96 Ballots for Constitutional Amendments. –||If a question to voters is submitted to the vote of the people on a special and separate ballot as provided in RSA 663:2, then those ballots shall be sealed and certified in a separate container as provided in RSA 659:95 except as provided in RSA 659:97.|||Source. 1979, 436:1, eff. July 1, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 659:97 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 659 - Election Procedure|Section 659:97 - Secretary of State to Prepare Containers, Sealers.

    659:97 Secretary of State to Prepare Containers, Sealers. –||The secretary of state shall, before any state election, prepare and distribute to each town and ward clerk containers to be used for preserving ballots and sealers to seal each such container. He shall prepare special containers and sealers to be used for preserving any special and separate ballots for questions to voters. The secretary of state shall prescribe the size and form of such containers and sealers and shall prescribe the form of any endorsement blank printed upon the sealers, provided that the blank is in substance consistent with the provisions of RSA 659:95.|||Source. 1979, 436:1, eff. July 1, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 659:98 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 659 - Election Procedure|Section 659:98 - Delivery of Ballots to Town Clerk.

    659:98 Delivery of Ballots to Town Clerk. –||The moderator, or the moderator's designee, and the selectmen, or their designee, after they have sealed and certified the state election ballots as provided in RSA 659:95 and RSA 659:96, shall deliver the sealed containers to the town or city clerk, or to the clerk's designee, who shall in their presence enter in the appropriate place on each sealer the time of day and shall sign his or her name in the appropriate blank on the sealer. The clerk or the clerk's designee shall, without breaking the seals or otherwise changing the condition of the containers, deposit the containers in the town or city hall, where the ballots shall be kept for a period set forth in RSA 33-A:3-a.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1985, 292:2. 2010, 317:82, eff. Aug. 16, 2010 at 12:01 a.m. 2018, 100:2, eff. July 24, 2018.|
NH Rev Stat § 659:99 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 659 - Election Procedure|Section 659:99 - Forwarding Ballots to the Secretary of State.

    659:99 Forwarding Ballots to the Secretary of State. –||If any person shall make a request for a recount as provided in RSA 660, or if the secretary of state shall request the ballots of the recent election, the clerk having the custody of such ballots shall, at the request of the secretary of state, forward the ballots forthwith to the secretary of state.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 2010, 317:56, eff. July 18, 2010.|
NH Rev Stat § 659:100 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 659 - Election Procedure|Section 659:100 - Destruction of Ballots.

    659:100 Destruction of Ballots. –||All state election ballots remaining in the possession of the town or city clerk may be destroyed in accordance with RSA 33-A:3-a.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1987, 208:1. 2010, 172:21, eff. Aug. 16, 2010.|
NH Rev Stat § 659:101 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 659 - Election Procedure|Section 659:101 - Preservation of Absentee Voting Materials and Election Day Affidavits.

    659:101 Preservation of Absentee Voting Materials and Election Day Affidavits. –||The absentee ballot affidavits and application forms processed by the moderator as provided in RSA 659:50, the absentee ballots challenged and rejected as provided in RSA 659:51 and RSA 659:53, and the qualified voter affidavits as provided in RSA 654:12 and any other documentary proof of qualifications retained by the town or city clerk, the supervisors of the checklist, or other election official shall be preserved in accordance with RSA 33-A:3-a. Qualified voter and voter registration affidavits shall be retained for the period set forth in RSA 33-A:3-a, and other materials may be destroyed after the election is settled and all appeals have expired or one year after the election, whichever is longer.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 2003, 289:59. 2006, 94:3. 2009, 278:6. 2010, 317:83, eff. Aug. 16, 2010 at 12:01 a.m. 2017, 205:14, eff. Sept. 8, 2017.|
NH Rev Stat § 659:102 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 659 - Election Procedure|Section 659:102 - Preservation of Checklists.

    659:102 Preservation of Checklists. –||Within 90 days of the closing of the polls for each regular state general election, and for each presidential primary election, the supervisors of the checklist in the towns, and the corresponding officers in the cities, shall send one of the marked checklists which were used in that election, certified by the officers, to the state archives. In addition, if directed by the secretary of state, they shall send one of the unmarked checklists which were used in the state general election at which a president was elected to the clerk of the federal district court for the district of New Hampshire. One marked copy of every checklist used in any election shall be turned over to the town or city clerk by the supervisors. The clerk shall preserve such checklists in his or her custody for a public record for a period set forth in RSA 33-A:3-a.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1981, 510:5. 1983, 426:11. 1994, 4:20. 2010, 172:23. 2011, 185:5. 2013, 106:1, eff. Aug. 23, 2013.|
NH Rev Stat § 659:103 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 659 - Election Procedure|Section 659:103 - Preservation of Challenge Affidavits.

    659:103 Preservation of Challenge Affidavits. –||The forms completed by challengers and affidavits made by challenged voters as provided in RSA 659:27 and RSA 659:27-a shall be preserved in accordance with RSA 33-A:3-a.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 2010, 172:24. 2011, 185:6, eff. Jan. 1, 2012.|
NH Rev Stat § 660:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 660 - Post-Election Procedure|Section 660:1 - Application.

    660:1 Application. –||Any candidate for whom a vote was cast for any office at a state general election may apply for a recount, provided that the difference between the votes cast for the applying candidate and a candidate declared elected is less than 20 percent of the total votes cast in the towns which comprise the office to be recounted. The application shall be made in writing to the secretary of state and shall be submitted no later than the Friday following the election. Each candidate requesting a recount shall pay the secretary of state fees as provided in RSA 660:2.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1981, 510:1. 1983, 175:2. 1994, 4:21. 1995, 69:1. 2008, 377:2, eff. Sept. 9, 2008.|