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NH Rev Stat § 655:31 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:31 - Straw Candidates.

    655:31 Straw Candidates. –||No person shall be a candidate for nomination at any primary unless his candidacy is bona fide and is filed for the actual purpose of personally seeking the nomination. Any candidate for nomination whose name is to be voted upon at primary election may, no later than the Wednesday after the last day for filing declarations of candidacy and primary petitions, file a petition with the ballot law commission alleging that one or more candidates for the same nomination is not a bona fide candidate. Upon receipt of such a petition, the commission shall notify in writing all candidates of that party for the same nomination of the time and place for its hearing. After such hearing, the ballot law commission shall have the power and duty to order stricken forthwith from the primary ballot the name or names of any candidate or candidates for said nomination if the commission finds that such candidate or candidates is obviously not a bona fide candidate, obviously having filed not primarily for the purpose of seeking the nomination but primarily for the purpose of drawing votes which might otherwise be cast for some other candidate for the same nomination. The decision of the commission shall be final as to questions both of law and fact, and no court shall have jurisdiction to review such decision.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1994, 4:6, eff. May 27, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 655:32 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:32 - No Declaration Filed.

    655:32 No Declaration Filed. –||I. In case no declaration shall be filed by a candidate for any nomination to be voted for at a primary, the nomination may be made by the appropriate party committee as provided in this section. The appropriate party committee shall notify the secretary of state in writing of a person it designates to fill the vacancy. The person so designated may accept the nomination by, on or before the Wednesday following the expiration of the period for filing declarations of candidacy as provided in RSA 655:14, filing with the secretary of state a declaration of candidacy as provided in RSA 655:17. Any candidate accepting a nomination under this paragraph who has already filed for an incompatible office as defined in RSA 655:10 shall withdraw the prior filing. Any vacancy created by the withdrawal of a filing may be filled pursuant to this section. If the candidate is designated for the office of governor, councilor, state senator, or state representative, he or she shall also file on or before the Wednesday following the period for filing declarations of candidacy the appropriate affidavit as provided in RSA 655:29. Any candidate so designated by a party committee who has not filed all the forms required by this section within the required period of time shall not have his or her name printed on the state primary election ballot for that office.||II. For the purposes of this section, the term "appropriate party committee" shall be as defined in RSA 655:36.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1985, 129:2. 1986, 86:1. 2008, 377:1, eff. Sept. 9, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 655:33 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:33 - Disqualification of Candidates.

    655:33 Disqualification of Candidates. –||The disqualification of a candidate to be voted for at a primary between the date of his filing and the day of the primary shall be dealt with as in the general election, as provided in RSA 655:38.|||Source. 1979, 436:1, eff. July 1, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 655:34 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:34 - Death of Candidate.

    655:34 Death of Candidate. –||The death of a candidate to be voted for at a primary between the date of his filing and the day of the primary shall be dealt with as in the general election, as provided in RSA 655:39.|||Source. 1979, 436:1, eff. July 1, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 655:35 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:35 - Same as General Election.

    655:35 Same as General Election. –||The procedures for conducting the primary shall be the same as those for the general election as provided in RSA 656, 657, 658 and 659 unless otherwise provided therein.|||Source. 1979, 436:1, eff. July 1, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 655:36 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:36 - Definition.

    655:36 Definition. –||For the purposes of this chapter, the "appropriate party committee" shall be defined as:||I. The state committee of that party or, if previously authorized by the same, the executive committee thereof for the offices of United States senator, United States representative, governor, councilor and state senator.||II. The county committee of that party for county offices and state representative if from a representative district containing more than one town, ward, or unincorporated place.||III. The town or ward committee of that party for state representative if the representative district contains only the town or ward.|||Source. 1979, 436:1, eff. July 1, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 655:37 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:37 - Vacancy for Office on Party Ticket.

    655:37 Vacancy for Office on Party Ticket. –||If, after the holding of a state primary election, a vacancy exists for any office on a party ticket, such vacancy may be filled as provided in this section. The appropriate party committee shall notify the secretary of state in writing of a person they designate to fill the vacancy. The person so designated shall, no later than the first Tuesday following the primary election, file with the secretary of state a declaration of candidacy as provided in RSA 655:17 with the understanding that, where the form says primary election, it shall be construed to mean general election. If the candidate is designated for the office of governor, executive councilor, state senator, or state representative, he or she shall also file, no later than the first Tuesday following the primary, the appropriate affidavit as provided in RSA 655:29. Any candidate who has not filed all the forms required by this section within the required period of time shall not have his or her name printed on the state general election ballot for that office.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1983, 426:14. 1994, 4:7. 2010, 317:10. 2012, 113:5, eff. May 31, 2012.|
NH Rev Stat § 655:38 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:38 - Disqualification of Candidate.

    655:38 Disqualification of Candidate. –||If a candidate to be voted for at the general election shall make oath between the date of the candidate's nomination and the day of the election that he or she does not qualify for the public office which he or she seeks because of age, domicile, or incapacitating physical or mental disability acquired subsequent to the primary, the secretary of state may remove said person's name from the ballot. Any such oath citing an incapacitating physical or mental disability shall be accompanied by a letter from a licensed physician confirming such a condition. A new candidate may be substituted by the appropriate party committee by submitting the name of the new candidate to the secretary of state within 3 days of the notice of disqualification. The name of the substitute candidate shall be placed on the ballots as provided in RSA 656:21.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 2000, 12:1. 2009, 214:4. 2013, 228:1, eff. Sept. 13, 2013.|
NH Rev Stat § 655:39 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:39 - Death of Candidate.

    655:39 Death of Candidate. –||If any candidate to be voted for at the general election shall die between the date of nomination and the day of election, a new candidate may be substituted by the appropriate party committee by submitting the name of the new candidate to the secretary of state within 3 days of the notice of death. The name of the substitute candidate shall be placed on the ballots as provided in RSA 656:21.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 2000, 12:2. 2009, 214:4, eff. Sept. 13, 2009.|
NH Rev Stat § 655:40 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:40 - General Provisions.

    655:40 General Provisions. –||As an alternative to nomination by party primary, a candidate may have his or her name placed on the ballot for the state general election by submitting the requisite number of nomination papers. Such papers shall contain the name and domicile of the candidate, the office for which the candidate is nominated, and the political organization or principles the candidate represents. Nomination papers shall be signed by such persons only as are registered to vote at the state general election. No voter shall sign more than one nomination paper for each office to be voted for, and no nomination paper shall contain the names of more candidates than there are offices to be filled. Each voter shall sign and date an individual nomination paper. Nomination papers shall be dated in the year of the election.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 2001, 74:1; 185:5. 2009, 214:5, eff. Sept. 13, 2009.|
NH Rev Stat § 655:40-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:40-a - Nomination of Organization.

    655:40-a Nomination of Organization. –||A political organization may have its name placed on the ballot for the state general election by submitting the requisite number of nomination papers, in the form prescribed by the secretary of state, pursuant to RSA 655:42, III. Such papers shall contain the name of the political organization and shall be signed by such persons only as are registered to vote at the state general election. No voter shall sign more than one nomination paper which allows a political organization access to the state general election ballot. Nomination papers shall be signed and dated in the year of the election.|||Source. 1996, 36:3. 1998, 246:1. 2001, 74:2; 185:5. 2014, 29:1, eff. July 22, 2014.|
NH Rev Stat § 655:40-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:40-b - Repealed by 2012, 113:13, eff. May 31, 2012.

    655:40-b Repealed by 2012, 113:13, eff. May 31, 2012. –|
NH Rev Stat § 655:41 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:41 - Certification.

    655:41 Certification. –||I. Each nomination paper shall be submitted to the supervisors of the checklist of the town or ward in which the signer is domiciled or is registered, and a majority of the supervisors shall certify whether or not the signer is a registered voter in said town or ward. The supervisors of the checklist shall certify nomination papers under this section in a timely fashion, so that their certification shall be complete for each candidate, together with any objections to the nomination papers submitted, no later than 5:00 p.m. on the Wednesday 2 weeks before the primary. Each nomination paper shall be submitted to the supervisors of the checklist no later than 5:00 p.m. on the Wednesday 5 weeks before the primary.||II. The city clerk may perform the responsibilities of the supervisors of the checklist under this section.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1985, 121:7. 1993, 164:2. 1996, 36:4. 2001, 142:2, eff. Aug. 28, 2001.|
NH Rev Stat § 655:42 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:42 - Number.

    655:42 Number. –||I. It shall require the names of 3,000 registered voters, 1,500 from each United States congressional district in the state, to nominate by nomination papers a candidate for president, United States senator, or governor.||II. It shall require the names of 1,500 voters registered in the district to nominate by nomination papers a candidate for United States representative; 750 to nominate a candidate for councilor or state senator; and 150 to nominate a candidate for state representative or county officer.||III. It shall require the names of registered voters equaling 3 percent of the total votes cast at the previous state general election to nominate by nomination papers a political organization.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1981, 412:1. 1996, 36:5. 2001, 142:3; 185:3. 2009, 214:6, eff. Sept. 13, 2009.|
NH Rev Stat § 655:43 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:43 - Filing Deadline.

    655:43 Filing Deadline. –||I. Nomination papers shall be filed with the secretary of state no later than 5:00 p.m. on the Wednesday one week before the primary. Nomination papers to be filed shall be grouped by municipality. No nomination papers shall be accepted by the secretary of state unless the candidate shall have met the age and domicile qualifications for the office he or she seeks at the time of the general election and meets all the other qualifications at the time of filing; and if a candidate for the office of governor, executive councilor, state senator, or state representative, unless the candidate shall file with the nomination papers an affidavit of qualifications as provided in RSA 655:28 and 655:29; and if a candidate for United States senator or United States representative, unless the candidate shall meet the qualifications for office under RSA 655:3 and 655:4.||II. No candidate who intends to run for any state or federal office in the state general election by means of nomination papers shall have his or her name placed on the ballot unless the candidate files a declaration of intent, as provided in RSA 655:17-a or 655:17-b, within the filing deadline required by RSA 655:14-a. Any person who files on the last day of the filing period must do so in person before the secretary of state.||III. No political organization shall have the names of its candidates placed on the ballot unless the chairman of the organization files a declaration of intent, as provided in RSA 655:17-c, within the filing deadline for candidates established in RSA 655:14-a.||IV. No person who filed as a candidate in the state primary election shall be eligible to have his or her name placed on the ballot for the state general election by submitting nomination papers as provided in this subdivision.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1981, 531:5. 1985, 121:8. 1996, 36:6. 2001, 142:4. 2009, 214:7, eff. Sept. 13, 2009.|
NH Rev Stat § 655:44 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:44 - Objections.

    655:44 Objections. –||Nomination papers made in accordance with the provisions of this chapter shall be regarded as valid and shall be received by the secretary of state unless objection thereto is made in writing no later than the Monday following the last day for the filing of such papers.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1994, 4:8, eff. May 27, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 655:45 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:45 - Nomination Papers Protected.

    655:45 Nomination Papers Protected. –||No person shall falsely make or file or knowingly deface or destroy any nomination paper, or any part thereof, or sign any nomination paper contrary to the provisions of law knowing the same, or any part thereof, to be falsely made or suppress any nomination paper, or any part thereof, which has been duly filed. Whoever knowingly violates any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor if a natural person or be guilty of a felony if any other person.|||Source. 1979, 436:1, eff. July 1, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 655:46 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:46 - Withdrawal.

    655:46 Withdrawal. –||Where a nomination has been made according to this chapter, no withdrawal or declination of a candidate shall be accepted by the secretary of state except as provided in RSA 655:38.|||Source. 1979, 436:1, eff. July 1, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 655:47 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:47 - Declaration of Candidacy.

    655:47 Declaration of Candidacy. –||I. The names of any persons to be voted upon as candidates for president at the presidential primary shall be printed on the ballots upon the filing of declarations of candidacy with the secretary of state in the following form and signed by the candidate:||I, _____________________, swear under penalties of perjury that I am qualified to be a candidate for president of the United States pursuant to article II, section 1, clause 4 of the United States Constitution, which states, "No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States." I further declare that I am domiciled in __________, in the city (or town or unincorporated place) of _______________, county of _______________, state of __________, that I am a registered member of the __________ party or that I am a recognized candidate for President in the party in which I desire to file; that I am a candidate for nomination for the office of president to be made at the primary election to be held on the _____ day of __________; and I hereby request that my name be printed on the official primary ballot of said __________ party as a candidate for such nomination.||II. Declarations of candidacy shall be filed between the first Monday in November and the third Friday in November, or during such other time period as the secretary of state shall announce.||III. The decision of the secretary of state as to the regularity of declarations of candidacy filed under this section shall be final.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1983, 298:1. 1994, 4:9. 1999, 161:3. 2006, 72:1. 2009, 33:1. 2010, 50:1, eff. July 17, 2010. 2019, 177:1, eff. Sept. 8, 2019.|
NH Rev Stat § 655:48 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:48 - Fees.

    655:48 Fees. –||I. No candidate for the office of president shall have his or her name placed on the ballot for the presidential primary unless the candidate shall pay to the secretary of state at the time of filing the declaration of candidacy a fee of $1,000.||II. Any person otherwise qualified to run for president, who is unable to pay the filing fee as prescribed in paragraph I by reason of indigence may, after proving such indigence, have his or her name printed on the presidential primary ballot of any party by filing with the secretary of state 10 primary petitions from each county of the state signed by registered voters of the party, who are domiciled in New Hampshire, together with one written assent to candidacy pursuant to RSA 655:25. The primary petition shall be in substantially the following form:|||State of New Hampshire||||I do hereby join in a petition for the printing on the presidential primary ballot of the name of __________ whose domicile is in the city (town) of _______________ (street and number and ward if in a city) _______________, in the county of __________, state of _______________, for the office of president to be voted for on Tuesday, the __________ day of __________, 20___, and certify that I am qualified to vote for a candidate for said office, that I am a registered member of the __________ party, and am not at this time a signer of any other similar petition for any other candidate for the above office.||Voter's Signature |Print Voter's Name |Voter's Domicile | street address | | Town or City (Ward)| |||Voter's Mailing Address | street | | Town or City Zip Code| |||I certify that the signer above is a registered member of the __________ party and a registered voter in the town/city of _______________.||Date of Filing __________||Signature of Town (City) Clerk __________|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1983, 298:2. 1998, 246:2. 2009, 33:2, eff. July 14, 2009.|
NH Rev Stat § 655:49 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:49 - Repealed by 1983, 298:3, eff. Aug. 17, 1983.

    655:49 Repealed by 1983, 298:3, eff. Aug. 17, 1983. –|
NH Rev Stat § 655:50 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:50 - Selection of Delegates.

    655:50 Selection of Delegates. –||Each presidential candidate who has filed pursuant to RSA 655:47 shall file with the secretary of state no later than the third Friday following the last day of the filing period for the presidential primary the names and addresses in alphabetical order of the delegates and their alternates, one alternate per delegate, who shall represent the candidate as his or her delegation to the national convention.|||Source. 1979, 367:1; 436:1. 1983, 352:1. 1994, 4:10. 2007, 212:1, eff. June 25, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 655:51 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:51 - Certification of Delegates Selected.

    655:51 Certification of Delegates Selected. –||All delegates and their alternates selected by each candidate in the presidential primary shall file with the secretary of state the following certification:||I, __________, certify that my domicile is in ward __________ in the city (or town) of __________, county of __________, state of New Hampshire, and am a qualified voter therein; that I am a registered member of the __________ party; that, if selected, I shall serve as delegate or alternate to the national convention of the __________ party next to be held for the nomination of candidates of said party for president and vice-president of the United States. I further certify that, if selected as delegate or alternate delegate, I will attend such convention unless I shall be prevented by sickness or other occurrence over which I have no control. I pledge myself, if selected as delegate or alternate delegate to said convention, whenever I shall vote, to vote for the nomination of (inserting the name of any person) as the candidate for said party for president so long as he shall be a candidate before said convention.|||Source. 1979, 436:1, eff. July 1, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 655:52 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:52 - Repealed by 1994, 4:34, eff. May 27, 1994.

    655:52 Repealed by 1994, 4:34, eff. May 27, 1994. –|
NH Rev Stat § 655:53 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:53 - By Nomination Papers.

    655:53 By Nomination Papers. –||Candidates for president may be nominated by nomination papers as provided in RSA 655:40 through 655:45.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 2010, 19:2, eff. July 6, 2010.|
NH Rev Stat § 655:54 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:54 - Nomination of Presidential Electors.

    655:54 Nomination of Presidential Electors. –||Presidential electors shall be nominated by state party conventions as provided in RSA 667:21.|||Source. 1979, 436:1, eff. July 1, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 655:55 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:55 - to 655:80 Repealed by 1981, 512:5, eff. Aug. 28, 1981.

    655:55 to 655:80 Repealed by 1981, 512:5, eff. Aug. 28, 1981. –|