Need your birth certificate to vote? This GOP bill will require it in NH
Concerns are mounting around a piece of Republican legislation making its way through the New Hampshire legislature that makes drastic changes on how Granite Staters would vote. New requirements would require hopeful voters to present their birth certificate, passport or other documents proving citizenship in order to register, changes which voting rights experts are calling “the most restrictive in the country.”
House Bill 1569 seeks to eliminate the existing option for individuals to sign a sworn affidavit when registering to vote, instead requiring them to present not just physical proof of identity but U.S. citizenship — documents like a birth certificate or a passport — even if registering on election day.
Republicans in the New Hampshire House already passed the bill through their chamber on a largely party line vote; it is currently in committee in the Senate before heading for a vote in the Senate.
Senate Democratic Leader Donna Soucy said Republican Senator Jim Gray proposed a sprawling, complex 12-page amendment before the Senate Election Law Committee seemingly designed to help the bill withstand a court challenge. She said the myriad changes the amendment offered, which included allocating money for creating a temporary election hotline to verify voter documents – was not an improvement.
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