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NH Rev Stat § 655:82 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 655 - Nominations|Section 655:82 - Uncontested Primary.

    655:82 Uncontested Primary. –||In the event that no party has more than one candidate file and no nonparty or other candidate files a declaration of intent, the primary election shall not be conducted. In such a case, the special election shall be held on the day previously fixed as the day for the holding of the special primary election.|||Source. 1981, 512:1. 1998, 136:1. 2010, 317:12. 2012, 26:3, eff. July 1, 2012.|
NH Rev Stat § 656:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 656 - Preparation of Voting Materials|Section 656:1 - General Responsibility.

    656:1 General Responsibility. –||Ballots for use in all state elections shall be prepared and delivered by the secretary of state at the expense of the state.|||Source. 1979, 436:1, eff. July 1, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 656:1-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 656 - Preparation of Voting Materials|Section 656:1-a - Paper Ballots.

    656:1-a Paper Ballots. –||For purposes of facilitating the examination and recounting of votes cast, all elections shall be conducted using paper ballots in accordance with this title.|||Source. 2006, 23:1, eff. May 30, 2006.|
NH Rev Stat § 656:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 656 - Preparation of Voting Materials|Section 656:2 - Prohibitions.

    656:2 Prohibitions. –||No person engaged in preparing or printing a state election ballot shall purloin, give away, or allow to be removed any such ballot. Whoever knowingly violates this provision shall be guilty of a misdemeanor if a natural person or shall be guilty of a felony if any other person.|||Source. 1979, 436:1, eff. July 1, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 656:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 656 - Preparation of Voting Materials|Section 656:3 - Preparation.

    656:3 Preparation. –||At least 6 days before any state general election is to be held, the official state general election ballot shall be sent by the secretary of state to the city and town clerks.|||Source. 1979, 436:1, eff. July 1, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 656:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 656 - Preparation of Voting Materials|Section 656:4 - Name and Domicile.

    656:4 Name and Domicile. –||Every state general election ballot shall contain the name of each candidate who has been nominated in accordance with the election laws, except as hereinafter provided, and shall contain no other name except party appellations. The names and addresses of the presidential electors shall not be printed on the ballot, but, in lieu thereof, the names of a party's candidates for president and vice-president shall be printed thereon under the designation for "President and Vice-President of the United States".|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1986, 126:2. 1989, 312:4. 1996, 36:8, eff. June 23, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 656:4-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 656 - Preparation of Voting Materials|Section 656:4-a - Candidates for the Office of United States Senator and United States Representative. [Omitted.]

    656:4-a Candidates for the Office of United States Senator and United States Representative. [Omitted.] –|
NH Rev Stat § 656:5-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 656 - Preparation of Voting Materials|Section 656:5-a - Order of Candidate Names on Ballots.

    656:5-a Order of Candidate Names on Ballots. –||I. Whenever there are 2 or more candidates for the same office whose names will appear together within the same column or list on a ballot, the position of such names shall be determined according to this section.||II. Immediately following the close of the period during which a person may accept the nomination of a party committee pursuant to RSA 655:32, the secretary of state or designee shall conduct a public random selection of a whole number from one to the total number of candidates for each possible list length where a group of candidates for the same office may appear in the same list in state or local elections during the next 2 years. For example, for a possible list of 3 candidates, the number one, 2, or 3 shall be randomly selected. The seed number for each possible list length shall remain in effect for the 2 years until the next random selection of seed numbers.||III. To determine the order of names on each ballot, the candidates for each office in the same list shall be temporarily listed alphabetically by surnames and the positions in such list shall be temporarily numbered in ascending order. The candidate whose position in the initial temporary list equals the seed number selected under paragraph II for the appropriate list length shall appear first on the ballot. The order of candidates after the candidate in the first position shall follow alphabetically by surname with "a" following "z."|||Source. 2010, 330:3, eff. July 20, 2010.|
NH Rev Stat § 656:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 656 - Preparation of Voting Materials|Section 656:6 - Designation of Office.

    656:6 Designation of Office. –||Immediately to the left of the set of party columns shall be an offices column which shall list the offices, each preceded by the word "For," for which the candidates whose names are listed in the party columns have been nominated, as in "For Governor." Below each such phrase shall be printed in small but easily legible letters "Vote for not more than ____ (here insert a number designating how many persons are to be voted for)."|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1986, 126:3. 1994, 309:2; 324:1. 2004, 201:2. 2005, 62:1, eff. July 22, 2005.|
NH Rev Stat § 656:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 656 - Preparation of Voting Materials|Section 656:7 - Order of Offices.

    656:7 Order of Offices. –||The order of the officers on the ballot shall be as follows: president and vice-president of the United States, governor, United States senator, representative in congress, executive councilor, state senator, state representative and county officers.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1983, 426:3. 1986, 126:4. 1991, 117:1. 1994, 309:3, eff. June 8, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 656:7-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 656 - Preparation of Voting Materials|Section 656:7-a - Order of Representative Districts.

    656:7-a Order of Representative Districts. –||In places which are electing representatives to the general court from more than one district, the order of officers on the ballot for that place shall list the candidates for representative to the general court in the numerical order of the districts from which they are running with the lower numbered district being listed first.|||Source. 1982, 29:5, eff. April 20, 1982.|
NH Rev Stat § 656:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 656 - Preparation of Voting Materials|Section 656:8 - Squares.

    656:8 Squares. –||Directly at the right of the name of each candidate there shall be a square, box, oval, or other appropriate symbol for directing voters where to make the appropriate mark; except that, in the case of president and vice-president of the United States, one square, box, oval, or other appropriate symbol shall suffice which shall be placed opposite the designation "President and Vice-President of the United States".|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1986, 126:5. 2004, 229:6, eff. Aug. 10, 2004.|
NH Rev Stat § 656:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 656 - Preparation of Voting Materials|Section 656:9 - Party Designation.

    656:9 Party Designation. –||Above each party column shall be printed in large, plain letters the name of the political party by which the candidates in such column were nominated.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1994, 309:4; 381:8. 2004, 201:3, eff. Jan. 1, 2005.|
NH Rev Stat § 656:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 656 - Preparation of Voting Materials|Section 656:10 - Repealed by 2007, 1:2, I, eff. June 15, 2007.

    656:10 Repealed by 2007, 1:2, I, eff. June 15, 2007. –|
NH Rev Stat § 656:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 656 - Preparation of Voting Materials|Section 656:11 - Repealed by 2007, 1:2, II, eff. June 15, 2007.

    656:11 Repealed by 2007, 1:2, II, eff. June 15, 2007. –|
NH Rev Stat § 656:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 656 - Preparation of Voting Materials|Section 656:12 - Write-In Blanks.

    656:12 Write-In Blanks. –||At the end of the list of candidates for each office, there shall be left as many blank lines as there are offices to be filled which a voter may use to write in the name of any person for whom the voter desires to vote.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1994, 309:6. 1996, 88:1, eff. July 14, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 656:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 656 - Preparation of Voting Materials|Section 656:13 - Questions on the Ballot.

    656:13 Questions on the Ballot. –||Except as provided in RSA 656:14, whenever a question is submitted to voters at a state general election as provided in RSA 663, the question shall be printed on the state general election ballot following the offices columns. Printed after the question there shall be 2 squares or ovals, one with the word "yes" beside it and another with the word "no" beside it.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1994, 309:7; 324:2. 2010, 317:13, eff. July 18, 2010.|
NH Rev Stat § 656:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 656 - Preparation of Voting Materials|Section 656:14 - Constitutional Amendments.

    656:14 Constitutional Amendments. –||The question of whether to approve a proposed constitutional amendment may be submitted to the vote of the people at a state general election but may be on a special and separate ballot as provided in RSA 663:2.|||Source. 1979, 436:1, eff. July 1, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 656:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 656 - Preparation of Voting Materials|Section 656:15 - Paper.

    656:15 Paper. –||The state general election ballot shall be printed on plain white paper in weight not less than that of ordinary printing paper. A constitutional question submitted on a separate ballot shall be printed on colored paper.|||Source. 1979, 436:1, eff. July 1, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 656:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 656 - Preparation of Voting Materials|Section 656:16 - Uniformity; Folding.

    656:16 Uniformity;  Folding. –||There shall be no impression or mark to distinguish one general election ballot from another. The names of all candidates shall be printed in uniform type, and the ballots for each town and city shall be such that their width and length when folded shall be uniform.|||Source. 1979, 436:1, eff. July 1, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 656:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 656 - Preparation of Voting Materials|Section 656:17 - Endorsement.

    656:17 Endorsement. –||On each state general election ballot shall be printed the words "Official ballot for" followed by the name of the town for which the ballot is prepared, the date of the state general election and a facsimile of the signature of the secretary of state.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 2010, 317:14, eff. July 18, 2010.|
NH Rev Stat § 656:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 656 - Preparation of Voting Materials|Section 656:18 - Sample Ballots.

    656:18 Sample Ballots. –||The secretary of state shall cause to be printed for each town 10 sample ballots. Such ballots shall be printed on tinted paper without facsimile endorsement but shall otherwise be identical to the state general election ballot. The sample ballots shall be forwarded as soon as printed to each town or ward clerk who shall post one copy in 2 public places in the town or ward within one day of their receipt and save the remainder to be posted on the day of the election as provided in RSA 658:26.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1983, 426:15, eff. Aug. 23, 1983.|
NH Rev Stat § 656:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 656 - Preparation of Voting Materials|Section 656:19 - Number.

    656:19 Number. –||At each state general election, the secretary of state shall furnish each town or city the state general election ballots in a number which the secretary of state shall deem sufficient for voting in the state general election.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1983, 426:4. 2007, 96:1, eff. Aug. 10, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 656:20 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 656 - Preparation of Voting Materials|Section 656:20 - Delivery of Ballots; Inspection.

    656:20 Delivery of Ballots;  Inspection. –||I. The secretary of state shall send the state general election ballots in a sealed package to the town and city clerks so they shall receive them no later than Tuesday immediately preceding the day of the state general election. The package shall be marked on the outside to clearly designate the town or city for which it is intended and the number of ballots enclosed. The secretary of state shall keep a record of the time when and the manner in which the packages were sent to the clerks and a record of the number of ballots so forwarded. A town or city clerk shall sign a receipt for the ballots received.||II. Each town or city clerk, prior to election day, shall open the package in which the ballots are enclosed, in the presence of at least one other legal voter, to verify that the ballots in the package are all the proper ballots for that town or city. The clerk and one other legal voter shall then reseal the package with the sealing label provided by the secretary of state.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1981, 383:1. 1994, 4:11, eff. May 27, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 656:21 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 656 - Preparation of Voting Materials|Section 656:21 - Pasters; Substitute Candidates.

    656:21 Pasters;  Substitute Candidates. –||In the event that a candidate dies or is disqualified as provided in RSA 655:38 or 655:39, the name of the substitute candidate shall be printed on the state general election ballot. If the state general election ballots have already been prepared and time will permit, the secretary of state may authorize adhesive slips or pasters with the name of the substitute candidate thereon to be printed and sent to the town or city clerks representing the territory wherein the deceased or disqualified candidate was to be voted for. Such paster shall be affixed to the ballots as provided in RSA 658:34. The name of the substitute candidate shall be received by the secretary of state no later than the Tuesday prior to the election in order for a substitute name to be placed on the ballot.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1990, 119:10, eff. June 18, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 656:22 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 656 - Preparation of Voting Materials|Section 656:22 - Preparation.

    656:22 Preparation. –||The official state primary election ballots shall be prepared by the secretary of state and shall be delivered by the secretary of state to town and city clerks so that the ballots shall be received not later than the Tuesday immediately preceding the state primary election. Each town and city clerk, in the presence of at least one other legal voter, shall verify the contents of the ballot package as provided under RSA 656:20 and reseal the ballots for use on election day.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1981, 383:2. 1994, 4:12. 1996, 88:2, eff. July 14, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 656:23 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 656 - Preparation of Voting Materials|Section 656:23 - General Form.

    656:23 General Form. –||The state primary election ballot shall be as nearly as practicable in the same form as the state general election ballot.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1994, 309:8, eff. June 8, 1994; 324:3, eff. June 8, 1994, at 12:01 a.m.|
NH Rev Stat § 656:24 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 656 - Preparation of Voting Materials|Section 656:24 - Order of Names.

    656:24 Order of Names. –||With the exception of the office of state representative, whenever there are 2 or more candidates for nomination to the same office, the names of such candidates shall be alternated on the state primary election ballots used so that each name shall appear thereon as nearly as may be an equal number of times at the top, at the bottom, and in each intermediate place, if any, of the list in which it belongs. Names of candidates for nomination to the office of state representative shall be arranged in the alphabetical order of their surnames according to the alphabetization procedure established in RSA 656:5-a.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1994, 324:4. 1996, 88:3. 2010, 330:4, eff. July 20, 2010.|
NH Rev Stat § 656:25 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 656 - Preparation of Voting Materials|Section 656:25 - Color; Party Designation.

    656:25 Color;  Party Designation. –||The state primary election ballots of all parties shall be printed upon colored paper, but no ballots of any political party shall be printed upon paper of the same or a closely similar color as the ballots of another political party. On the back of each ballot shall be printed in prominent type the name of the party.|||Source. 1979, 436:1, eff. July 1, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 656:26 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 656 - Preparation of Voting Materials|Section 656:26 - Number.

    656:26 Number. –||The secretary of state shall furnish to each town or ward clerk the state primary election ballots of each political party in a number which the secretary of state shall deem sufficient for voting in the state primary.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1983, 426:5. 1989, 133:1. 1994, 4:13. 1996, 88:4, eff. July 14, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 656:27 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 656 - Preparation of Voting Materials|Section 656:27 - Number for New Party.

    656:27 Number for New Party. –||For the first state primary election at which a political party has candidates for nomination, the secretary of state shall print for said party a sufficient number of state primary election ballots which in the secretary of state's discretion shall most closely approximate the figures provided in RSA 656:26.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1996, 88:4, eff. July 14, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 656:28 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 656 - Preparation of Voting Materials|Section 656:28 - Sample Ballots.

    656:28 Sample Ballots. –||The secretary of state shall furnish 10 sample state primary election ballots of each political party printed on tinted paper to each town or ward clerk and, upon request, a reasonable number of such sample ballots to each person whose name appears upon the ballot as a candidate. Each town or ward clerk shall post one sample ballot of each political party in each of 2 public places in the clerk's town or ward within one day of receiving such sample ballots and save the remainder to be posted on the day of the primary as provided in RSA 658:26.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1983, 426:6. 1996, 88:4. 2013, 209:3, eff. Sept. 8, 2013.|
NH Rev Stat § 656:29 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 656 - Preparation of Voting Materials|Section 656:29 - Preparation.

    656:29 Preparation. –||The official presidential primary election ballot for each political party shall be sent by the secretary of state so as to be received by the city and town clerks no later than the Tuesday immediately preceding the presidential primary. Each town and city clerk, in the presence of at least one other legal voter, shall verify the contents of the ballot package as provided under RSA 656:20 and reseal the ballots for use on election day.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1981, 383:3. 1994, 4:14, eff. May 27, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 656:30 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 656 - Preparation of Voting Materials|Section 656:30 - General Form.

    656:30 General Form. –||The presidential primary election ballot shall be as nearly as practicable in the same form as the state primary election ballot.|||Source. 1979, 436:1, eff. July 1, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 656:31 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 656 - Preparation of Voting Materials|Section 656:31 - Form.

    656:31 Form. –||On the presidential primary election ballot of each political party, there shall be one column for the office of president. The column shall be headed "Candidate of the (insert name of party) Party for President of the United States." Underneath this heading there shall appear the words: "I hereby declare my preference for candidate for the office of President of the United States to be as follows." Below these words, there shall be printed "(VOTE FOR NOT MORE THAN ONE)" followed by the name, town or city, and state of each candidate with boxes directly to the right. There shall always be one blank space on the ballot below the candidates' names to allow for writing in the name of a candidate.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1987, 284:4. 2007, 331:1. 2009, 33:3, eff. July 14, 2009.|
NH Rev Stat § 656:32 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 656 - Preparation of Voting Materials|Section 656:32 - Other Provisions.

    656:32 Other Provisions. –||The provisions of RSA 656:24-656:28 relating to state primary election ballots shall apply to presidential primary ballots.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 2003, 319:143. 2015, 96:1, eff. July 5, 2015.|
NH Rev Stat § 656:33 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 656 - Preparation of Voting Materials|Section 656:33 - Official Absence, Religious Observance, and Disability Absentee Ballots.

    656:33 Official Absence, Religious Observance, and Disability Absentee Ballots. –||Prior to any state election, the secretary of state shall prepare, in such quantity as the secretary of state may deem necessary, absence, religious observance, and disability absentee ballots in the same form as nearly as practicable as the official ballot to be used at said election. Said absentee ballots shall have the words "absentee ballot" printed on them and shall be similarly endorsed and printed on paper of the same color as that used for official ballots.|||Source. 1979, 308:1; 436:1. 1981, 392:2. 1996, 88:5, eff. July 14, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 656:34 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 656 - Preparation of Voting Materials|Section 656:34 - Federal Offices Only Absentee Ballot.

    656:34 Federal Offices Only Absentee Ballot. –||Prior to any federal election, the secretary of state shall prepare, in such quantity as the secretary of state may deem necessary, federal offices only absentee ballots in paper and electronic form, similar in form to the official ballot to be used at said election. Said ballots shall have the words "federal offices only absentee ballot" on them and shall be endorsed and the paper version shall be printed on paper of the same color as that used for official ballots. Such ballots shall provide for voting absentee only for candidates seeking election to federal offices and for no other candidates.|||Source. 1979, 436:1. 1981, 392:2. 1996, 88:5. 2010, 317:15, eff. Sept. 15, 2010.|