By Joe Chen | The Center Square
Election officials recently determined all New Hampshire residents are eligible to cast absentee ballots for municipal, primary, and general elections to keep themselves and poll workers safe from COVID-19.
“New Hampshire is working to make sure a voter will not have to choose between their personal safety and exercising their right to vote,” David Scanlan, deputy secretary of state, told The Center Square.
Under the law, voters can cast absentee ballots due to a disability.
“This includes a voter who is quarantined, including self-quarantine, for any reason due to COVID-19,” Secretary of State Bill Gardner and Attorney General Gordon MacDonald said in a memo. “Compliance with general medical advice issued to the public by health officials is sufficient, individualized advice from the voter’s personal physician is not required.”
Even if the severity of the virus declines in the months ahead, any voter would still be able to cast an absentee ballot.
“It is reasonable to anticipate that voters may feel apprehension about voting in person in the September 2020 Primary and November 2020 General Elections,” the memo reads. “Thus, any voter who is unable to vote in person in the September 8, 2020 Primary Election or the November 3, 2020 General Election because of illness from COVID-19 or who fears that voting in person may expose himself/herself or others to COVID-19 will be deemed to come within the definition of ‘disability’ for purposes of obtaining an absentee ballot.”
As of Monday morning, there have been 1,392 confirmed cases of coronavirus infection in New Hampshire and 41 deaths from COVID-19.
The memo did not address voter registration, but Nicholas Chong Yen, assistant attorney general, recently told NHPR that eligible voters don’t need to register in person and can use the absentee voter registration process.
“We are currently working through all of the issues posed by the Covid-19 virus on several different levels,” Scanlan told the Center Square. “We will continue to issue guidance statements moving forward and fully expect to have a workable plan well in advance of the fall elections that provides for poll worker training and voter education.”
Sununu is insuring the end of his role as governor and a Democrat-run New Hampshire.
I hate to say it, but this is a big mistake something there going to regret !!
It has “Fraud “, written all over it ………
So correct CHenry. A recent article from Judicial Watch confirming this and it also applies to VT in particular S of S Condos.
Judicial Watch Finds Millions of ‘Extra’ Registrants on Voting Rolls – Warns California, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Colorado, Virginia to Clean Up Voting Rolls or Face a Federal Lawsuit
https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-finds-millions-of-extra-registrants-on-voting-rolls-warns-california-pennsylvania-north-carolina-colorado-virginia-to-clean-up-voting-rolls-or-face-a-fed/?utm_source=deployer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newslink&utm_term=members&utm_content=20200421133034
At Least 2.5 Million Extra Names on Voting Rolls, Drop of One Million After Successful Judicial Watch Lawsuits
In the latest round of warning letters, Judicial Watch explains that implausibly high registration rates raise legal concerns:
Thank God for JW they have many ongoing lawsuits to expose and correct government corruption and H Clinton.