Reminder: Teams Meeting Tomorrow - Thursday, March 7 @ 2pm
Autumn Raschick-Goodwin
Action 1 - LTE on HB 1569 and Email Your State Reps on HB 1569
HB 1569 left the House Election Law Committee with no recommendation during their executive session on Tuesday, March 5th, so the bill is moving to the House floor. Given the risk that this bill poses, we are taking a strong stance and providing as much pushback on this as possible. Please write an LTE on HB 1569, email and/or call your Representatives urging them to oppose this bill before the executive session takes place.
Link to Email Committee via UJoin
Sample LTE:
To the Editor:
When registering to vote, people are asked for proof of identity, age, domicile, and citizenship; if lacking required proof, they are afforded the opportunity to sign a binding affidavit, having significant penalties if abused, then register and cast a ballot. This process safeguards our elections and ensures no legitimate voter is turned away. Gov. Sununu states the system works, has integrity, and represents the gold standard for voting; reinforced by Secretary of State Scanlan, caretaker of our elections, stating “There’s no evidence that I’ve seen of any organized, widespread voter fraud taking place in New Hampshire.” Furthermore, UNH polling indicates 92% of voters had confidence in Election 2022 outcomes.
Current law protects voters who arrive at the polling place, as they have done routinely, but discover their name has been purged from the voter rolls, or whose qualifying documents are in transition, inaccessible, or were destroyed by fire or flood, or simply forgotten. However, the NH legislature is considering HB 1569, which eliminates, in sweeping fashion, certain currently available affidavits as options for voting, and ignores our history of secure and accurate
elections. Amendments cannot cure.
Since June 2, 1784, our Constitution has been amended by a super majority will of the people to expand voting rights. With SCOTUS rolling back established rights, including voting protections, and warning of general roll backs of more rights, it is imperative our legislature not follow suit by rolling back existing options for voting.
Bob Perry
Strafford
Action 2 - Invite Teachers and Students to our Highschool Voter Registration Volunteer Workshop
Please share this upcoming event with as many of the teachers and students in your lives as you can.
Highschool Voter Registration Volunteer Workshop
When: March 26th, 6:00pm EST
Join volunteers across your state to help NH high school students register to vote before they graduate this spring! Learn how to encourage and empower students and educators to organize voter registration events for their schools in NH.
Learn more and register here.
Action 3 - Invite People to Join our Regional Democracy Teams
We are looking to grow our Regional Democracy Teams membership base so we can make a bigger impact on our democracy. Many hands make light work, and when it comes to building our democracy there is always work to be done. We ask that you invite 5 people to join our Teams.
Bonus Action - Thank Our Senators
Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan joined a group of 50 U.S. Senators to reintroduce the John R. Lewis Voting Advancement Act, legislation that would update and restore critical safeguards of the original Voting Rights Act.
The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act is endorsed by hundreds of organizations, including the following leading civil rights organizations: Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, American Civil Liberties Union, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), MALDEF, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law and Demos.
This week we ask that you contact Senator Hassan and Senator Shaheen to thank them for taking this step to support equal voting rights.
The full text of the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act can be found here.
A section-by-section analysis of the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act can be found here.
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