This is not a bash NH thread, but I'm happy I don't live there. Libertarian Alert.
In most places, yes. But not here in charming Keene, where parking officers figure in a philosophical tug of war between a small band of activists who live by the motto “Free Keene,” and the great majority of residents who were unaware that their city was in bondage.
Keene’s two parking officers, both women, are often videotaped by young adults known as “Robin Hooders.” They track the whereabouts of the officers by two-way radio, feed expired meters before $5 tickets can be written, and leave a business card saying that “we saved you from the king’s tariff.”
Welcome to Sherwood Forest, N.H., where these acts of charity have led to some donations and gratitude, but also to sidewalk tensions, harassment allegations and litigation. They are part of a broader effort by about two-dozen activists, most of them from someplace else, to unshackle Keene from the “violent monopoly” of government and its enforcers, including these parking officers who work in weather fair and foul.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/05/us/politics/libertarians-trail-meter-readers-telling-town-live-free-or-else.html?smid=fb-share&_r=1
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There are Free Stater types in a lot of the small towns in Southern NH. They make up about 2% - 10% of the population of these towns, but they show up to EVERY town meeting, they draft warrant articles that change the town laws, and they always vote.
My mother works in local government a few towns over, and these people are a constant burden. The only way to beat them is to overwhelm them with numbers, both at the meetings and at the polls. It's a microcosm of a national problem...and frankly, the people to blame for the damage done are not the Free Staters, but the massive number of lazy shits who can't be bothered to take a hand in their excellent local democracies.
Politically speaking, NH is far more liberal than a lot of other states. A massive influx of Massachusetts voters turned the southernmost and most populous NH counties into basically Eastern Massachusetts voting blocs. NH went for Kerry in 2004, for Obama in '08 and '12, has a Dem governor and only one GOP congressmember...and all of them are women.
Plus, New Hampshire is awesome, so there. 
