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NH Rev Stat § 654:36-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 654 - Voters and Checklists|Section 654:36-a - Request to Correct the Checklist.

    654:36-a Request to Correct the Checklist. –||I. A supervisor of the checklist, the town or city clerk, or any other person, may submit a request for correction of the checklist to the supervisors of the checklist or to the town or city clerk based upon evidence that a person listed on the checklist is not qualified as a voter in the town or ward. The clerk shall forward requests for correction of the checklist to the supervisors of the checklist. At the next session of the supervisors, they shall examine the requests and determine whether or not it is more likely than not that the person's qualifications are in doubt.||II. If the supervisors of the checklist determine that it is more likely than not that the person's qualifications are in doubt, they shall send a notice to the person and afford the person at least 30 days to provide proof of his or her qualifications. If the person fails to respond to the 30-day notice or responds but fails to provide proof that establishes that it is more likely than not that the person is qualified to vote in the town or ward, the person's name shall be removed from the checklist. The supervisors of the checklist shall retain a copy of the notice in accordance with RSA 33-A:3-a.|||Source. 2006, 243:1. 2010, 172:11, eff. Aug. 16, 2010.|
NH Rev Stat § 654:36-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 654 - Voters and Checklists|Section 654:36-b - Reports of Change of Address.

    654:36-b Reports of Change of Address. –||If the supervisors of the checklist receive a report from the United States Postal Service or the department of safety directly or as communicated by the secretary of state through the centralized voter registration database that a voter has permanently changed his or her address to another town, city, or state, they shall strike that name from the checklist at the next session for the correction of the checklist. The supervisors of the checklist shall retain the report in accordance with RSA 33-A:3-a. As an alternative, the supervisors of the checklist may first send a 30-day notice letter and then shall remove the name from the checklist if the voter does not respond to that notice as set forth in RSA 654:44.|||Source. 2006, 243:1. 2010, 172:12, eff. Aug. 16, 2010.|
NH Rev Stat § 654:37 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 654 - Voters and Checklists|Section 654:37 - Reports of Death.

    654:37 Reports of Death. –||Whenever there is filed in the office of the clerk an official notice of the death of any person or persons of the age of 18 years or over or the clerk receives notice of a death record of such person or persons under RSA 5-C:4, V with a full match, the town or city clerk shall notify the supervisors of the checklist of said deaths by submitting a notice of same to the supervisors at their next regular meeting. For reports under RSA 5-C:4, V with a possible match, the city or town clerk shall look for an official notice of death and if available shall proceed as described in this section. If there is no official verification, the city or town clerk shall follow the procedures in RSA 654:37-a. Upon receipt of such notice, the supervisors shall examine the checklist; and, if the name of said deceased person appears thereon, it shall be removed. The notice shall be retained in accordance with RSA 33-A:3-a. Any supervisor who shall neglect or refuse to erase the name of such deceased voter from the checklist after receiving such notice from the town or city clerk shall be guilty of a violation.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 2010, 172:13, eff. Aug. 16, 2010. 2016, 270:3, eff. July 1, 2017. 2021, 137:3, eff. Sept. 21, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 654:37-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 654 - Voters and Checklists|Section 654:37-a - Unofficial Reports of Death.

    654:37-a Unofficial Reports of Death. –||If the supervisors of the checklist learn of the death of a voter but do not receive notice as outlined in RSA 654:37, they shall mail to the last known address of the voter a 30-day letter specifically for updating the checklist upon the death of a voter. Such letter shall include the contact information for the supervisors of the checklist to which a response may be sent. If there is no response within 30 days, the supervisors will remove that voter's name from the checklist. If there is a response confirming the death within 30 days, the supervisors may remove the voter's name upon receipt of the confirmation of death.|||Source. 2019, 331:1, eff. Oct. 15, 2019.|
NH Rev Stat § 654:39 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 654 - Voters and Checklists|Section 654:39 - Verification Every 10 Years.

    654:39 Verification Every 10 Years. –||I. In addition to any verification carried out under the provisions of RSA 654:38, the supervisors shall verify the checklist in 1981 and once every 10 years thereafter.||II. Between April 1 and August 1 of 1981 and thereafter in each year ending with a one, the supervisors shall post notice of their sessions in 2 appropriate places one of which shall be the town or city's Internet website, if such exists, and published at least twice in a newspaper of general circulation and hold sufficient sessions for verification of the checklist as in their opinion will enable all eligible voters in said town or ward to appear before them and register or reregister as the case may be. Whenever a person is reregistered, his or her party designation, if any, on the checklist undergoing revision shall not be changed except as provided in RSA 654:34.||III. Beginning June 1 of such year, the supervisors shall review the checklist and shall strike therefrom the names of all persons who have not registered or reregistered under paragraphs I and IV; provided, that there shall not be stricken from said checklist the name of any person duly qualified to vote unless such person, not less than 30 days prior to such action, shall have been sent notice by the supervisors at his last known address of his failure to reregister stating the procedure to be followed in order to reregister and have his name retained on said checklist nor unless such person shall have been given a reasonable opportunity to follow said procedure.||IV. For the purpose of this section, a person shall be deemed reregistered and need not appear before the supervisors if:||(a) The person voted in any election within the 4 years immediately preceding a 10-year verification; or||(b) The person has been added to the checklist since the last state general election.||V. Upon completion of verification of the checklist, but in no event later than September 1, the supervisors shall file with the secretary of state the following certificate: We, the supervisors of the checklist (or registrars of voters) of the town (or ward __________) of __________, do hereby certify that we have verified the checklist of registered voters in the town (or ward __________ of the city) of __________, pursuant to the provisions of RSA 654:39.||VI. In verifying the checklist in accordance with this section, the provisions of RSA 654:38, IV and V shall apply.|||Source. 1979, 306:1; 436:1. 1990, 119:8, 9. 2010, 177:1, eff. Aug. 20, 2010. 2016, 259:3, eff. June 15, 2016.|
NH Rev Stat § 654:40 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 654 - Voters and Checklists|Section 654:40 - Checklist for Additional Polling Place.

    654:40 Checklist for Additional Polling Place. –||In towns which have established an additional polling place as provided in RSA 658:10, a separate checklist shall be prepared as provided in RSA 658:12.|||Source. 1979, 436:1, eff. July 1, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 654:41 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 654 - Voters and Checklists|Section 654:41 - Checklists for Unincorporated Places.

    654:41 Checklists for Unincorporated Places. –||Checklists for voters in unincorporated places shall be prepared and corrected as provided in RSA 668.|||Source. 1979, 436:1, eff. July 1, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 654:42 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 654 - Voters and Checklists|Section 654:42 - Complaint to Superior Court.

    654:42 Complaint to Superior Court. –||Any citizen of the state may, in term time or vacation, file a complaint with the superior court stating that his name is illegally kept from, or his name or that of some other citizen is illegally placed upon, the checklist of a town or ward, and the facts upon which the complaint is based. Said complaint shall be deemed sufficient if it sets forth the basis of the complaint and may be filed by the complainant with the clerk of court or any justice thereof. The complainant may appear with or without counsel. Thereupon, the presiding justice in term time, or any justice of the superior court in vacation, shall order that a copy of the complaint be served on the supervisors of the checklist of the town and on the citizens other than the complainant named in the petition and shall set a time and place for an immediate hearing. The justice hearing the case may order the name of the voter concerning whom the complaint is made to be added or removed from the checklist as justice requires, and his decision shall be final on questions of fact as in equity cases.|||Source. 1979, 436:1, eff. July 1, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 654:43 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 654 - Voters and Checklists|Section 654:43 - Penalty for Failure to Keep Correct List.

    654:43 Penalty for Failure to Keep Correct List. –||The supervisors of the checklist shall be guilty of violations if the supervisors at any session held for the correction of the checklist, on receiving satisfactory evidence:||I. Shall neglect or refuse to strike from the list the name of any person who is not a legal voter; or||II. Shall neglect or refuse to insert on the list the name of any person who is a legal voter; or||III. Shall neglect or refuse to hear or examine any evidence offered for such purpose in either of these cases under paragraphs I and II; or||IV. Shall at any time knowingly insert on the list the name of any person not a legal voter; or||V. Shall knowingly strike out therefrom or omit to insert the name of any legal voter.|||Source. 1979, 436:1, eff. July 1, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 654:44 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 654 - Voters and Checklists|Section 654:44 - Removing Names from Checklist; Notice Required.

    654:44 Removing Names from Checklist;  Notice Required. –||I. The supervisors shall remove no person's name from the checklist of their town or ward unless they shall send notice by mail to the last known address of the person whose name they wish to remove from the checklist stating the reason they are considering removing such person's name from the checklist. Such notice shall also state the time and the place at which the supervisors shall meet to consider the removal of that person's name and shall give the date of such meeting which shall be at least 30 days after they send such notice. At such meeting, the person whose name the supervisors wish to remove shall have a chance as he or she wishes to state in person or to present in writing personally, or by mail or other messenger, or by any such combination of these as the person chooses, the reasons why his or her name should be left on the checklist. The supervisors shall not remove a person's name from the checklist until after the completion of the written or oral statement, if any, of the person whose name they wish to remove from the checklist at the meeting held at least 30 days after they sent the notice this section requires. The supervisors shall retain a copy of the notice in accordance with RSA 33-A:3-a.||II. The provisions of this section do not apply to the removal of the names of persons for whom the supervisors have received a report of transfer or death as provided in RSA 654:36, 654:37, or 654:37-a, nor to the removal of names during the period for verification of the checklist as provided in RSA 654:38 or 654:39, nor to the removal of names of persons for whom they have received a notice from a duly authorized board of registration from a community outside New Hampshire stating that a person whose name is on the checklist of the town or ward in New Hampshire has registered to vote outside New Hampshire.|||Source. 1981, 378:1. 2010, 172:14, eff. Aug. 16, 2010. 2019, 331:2, eff. Oct. 15, 2019.|
NH Rev Stat § 654:46 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 654 - Voters and Checklists|Section 654:46 - Repealed by 2008, 10:2, eff. May 5, 2008.

    654:46 Repealed by 2008, 10:2, eff. May 5, 2008. –|
NH Rev Stat § 655:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:1 - Citizenship.

    655:1 Citizenship. –||To hold any elective office in the state, a person must be a citizen of the United States, either by birth or by naturalization.|||Source. 1979, 436:1, eff. July 1, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 655:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:2 - Domicile.

    655:2 Domicile. –||To hold any elective office in the state, a person must have a domicile in the state. Registration to vote or voting in another state during the relevant time period shall create a presumption that a person does not have a domicile in this state.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 2001, 118:1, eff. Aug. 25, 2001.|
NH Rev Stat § 655:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:3 - United States Senator.

    655:3 United States Senator. –||To hold the office of United States senator, a person must be qualified as provided in Article 1, section 3 of the federal constitution.|||Source. 1979, 436:1, eff. July 1, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 655:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:4 - United States Representative.

    655:4 United States Representative. –||To hold the office of United States representative, a person must be qualified as required by Article 1, section 2 of the federal constitution.|||Source. 1979, 436:1, eff. July 1, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 655:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:5 - Governor.

    655:5 Governor. –||To hold the office of governor, a person must be qualified as provided in Part 2, Article 42 of the state constitution: at the time of the election, the person must have been an inhabitant of this state for 7 years next preceding, and be of the age of 30 years.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 2003, 22:1, eff. April 24, 2003.|
NH Rev Stat § 655:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:6 - Councilor.

    655:6 Councilor. –||To hold the office of councilor, a person must be qualified as provided in Part 2, Article 61 of the state constitution: the person must be of the age of 30 years, and shall have been an inhabitant of this state for 7 years immediately preceding the election, and at the time thereof shall be an inhabitant of the district for which he or she shall be chosen. Should such person, after election, cease to be an inhabitant of the district for which he or she was chosen, he or she shall be disqualified to hold said position and a vacancy shall be declared therein.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 2003, 22:1, eff. April 24, 2003.|
NH Rev Stat § 655:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:7 - State Senator.

    655:7 State Senator. –||To hold the office of state senator, a person must be qualified as provided in Part 2, Article 29 of the state constitution: the person must be of the age of 30 years, and shall have been an inhabitant of this state for 7 years immediately preceding the election, and at the time thereof shall be an inhabitant of the district for which he or she shall be chosen. Should such person, after election, cease to be an inhabitant of the district for which he or she was chosen, he or she shall be disqualified to hold said position and a vacancy shall be declared therein.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 2003, 22:1, eff. April 24, 2003.|
NH Rev Stat § 655:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:8 - State Representative.

    655:8 State Representative. –||To hold the office of state representative, a person must be at least 18 years of age and must be qualified as provided in Part 2, Article 14 of the state constitution: for 2 years, at least, next preceding the election shall have been an inhabitant of this state; and shall be, at the time of the election, an inhabitant of the town, ward, place, or district he or she may be chosen to represent, and shall cease to represent such town, ward, place, or district immediately on his or her ceasing to be qualified as aforesaid.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 2003, 22:1, eff. April 24, 2003.|
NH Rev Stat § 655:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:9 - County Officers.

    655:9 County Officers. –||To hold the office of county commissioner, sheriff, county attorney, county treasurer, register of deeds, or register of probate, a person must have a domicile in the county for which he is chosen. In addition, to hold the office of county commissioner in the counties of Rockingham, Belknap, Grafton, Merrimack, Hillsborough, Cheshire, Sullivan, Coos, and Carroll, a person must have a domicile in the district from which he is elected at the time of his election.|||Source. 1979, 436:1, eff. July 1, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 655:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:10 - Incompatible Offices.

    655:10 Incompatible Offices. –||I. No person shall file declaration of candidacy or primary petitions for nomination at the primary for incompatible offices. For the purposes of this section, incompatible offices shall include the offices of governor, United States senator, United States representative, representative to the general court, state senator, councilor, county commissioner, county sheriff, county attorney, county treasurer, register of deeds, and register of probate. If any person shall file for incompatible offices, the secretary of state shall advise the person of the provisions hereof and said person shall then advise the secretary of state which of said offices he or she wishes to retain in order to seek said nomination.||II. No person shall be nominated for incompatible offices. If a person shall be nominated for incompatible offices, the secretary of state shall advise the person of the provisions hereof and the person shall then advise the secretary of state which nomination the person wishes to retain; the secretary of state shall declare the nominations not retained by the person vacant.||III. A party shall not designate a person to fill a vacancy if the person has been nominated for any incompatible office.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 2003, 84:1. 2011, 150:1. 2015, 58:1, eff. Aug. 1, 2015.|
NH Rev Stat § 655:10-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:10-a - One Representative District Only.

    655:10-a One Representative District Only. –||A person whose domicile qualifies him or her for more than one representative district shall choose one representative district at any election from which to be a candidate and, for that election, shall be qualified to be a candidate for that one district only.|||Source. 1982, 29:4. 2003, 289:33, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.|
NH Rev Stat § 655:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:11 - Notice to Town and City Clerks.

    655:11 Notice to Town and City Clerks. –||At least 100 days before the time of holding any primary, the secretary of state shall prepare and distribute to each town and city clerk in the state a notice in writing designating the offices for which candidates are to be nominated and that delegates to the state convention are to be elected.|||Source. 1979, 436:1, eff. July 1, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 655:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:12 - Posting Notice of Primary.

    655:12 Posting Notice of Primary. –||Each city clerk shall distribute the notices prepared under RSA 655:11 to the ward clerks in the city. Each town and ward clerk shall, within 10 days after the receipt of such notice, cause notice of such primary to be posted in 2 public places in the town or ward. Such notice shall prescribe the hour the polls are to open and the hour before which they may not close as provided in RSA 659. It shall state the offices for which candidates are to be nominated, the delegates to be elected, and any questions to be voted on, as well as the location of the central polling place and of any additional polling places. It shall also state the date before which declarations of candidacy must be filed to place names upon the ballots to be used at such primary and the officers with whom they must be filed.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 2011, 150:2, eff. Aug. 7, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 655:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:13 - Forms and Directions.

    655:13 Forms and Directions. –||It shall be the duty of the secretary of state to prepare all forms necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter and to furnish the same in reasonable quantities to the proper officials. It shall also be his duty to furnish full directions to the clerks of towns and wards when he sends them the notice provided for in RSA 655:11 as to the posting of notices, holding of primaries and making return thereof.|||Source. 1979, 436:1, eff. July 1, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 655:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:14 - Filing: General Provisions.

    655:14 Filing:  General Provisions. –||The name of any person shall not be printed upon the ballot of any party for a primary unless he or she is a registered member of that party, he or she shall have met the age and domicile qualifications for the office he or she seeks at the time of the general election, he or she meets all the other qualifications at the time of filing, and he or she shall file with the appropriate official between the first Wednesday in June and the Friday of the following week a declaration of candidacy as provided in RSA 655:17.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1981, 308:7. 1985, 121:1; 129:1. 2011, 150:3, eff. Aug. 7, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 655:14-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:14-a - Filing by Other Candidates.

    655:14-a Filing by Other Candidates. –||Every candidate for state or federal office who intends to have his name placed on the ballot for the state general election by means other than nomination by party primary shall file a declaration of intent with the secretary of state as provided in RSA 655:17-a or RSA 655:17-b during the same time period in which party candidates file a declaration under RSA 655:14.|||Source. 1981, 531:2. 1985, 121:2. 1991, 387:2, eff. July 2, 1991.|