NHGOP ADOPTS RESOLUTION STRONGLY SUPPORTING VOTER ID IN NH

Concord, NH – At its Executive Committee meeting last night, the New Hampshire Republican State Committee adopted a resolution stating the NHGOP’s “strong opposition to continued efforts by Democrat legislators and the Governor to defeat legislation requiring voters to present photo identification in order to register and vote in New Hampshire.”  More than thirty states already have identification requirements on the books, including Democrat-controlled states such as Connecticut and Rhode Island.  New Hampshire Republican State Committee Chairman Wayne MacDonald released the following statement about the resolution:

“Voters should be outraged by the recent reports of voter fraud in New Hampshire, and the action taken by the NH GOP reflects the frustration many people across our state are feeling.  It’s a shame that Governor Lynch and Democrats in the legislature have insisted that no problem exists and in the past have opposed efforts that would strengthen our laws.  More than thirty states, both blue and red, already have voter ID requirements on the books and, given our First-in-the-Nation Primary role, we should too.  We must do all that we can to stamp out voter fraud while ensuring that voters get to fairly exercise one of their most fundamental rights.  Protecting the integrity of our elections is fundamental to our democracy.”

Speaker Bill O’Brien moved the motion, which received a second from Manchester Republican Committee Chairman Jeff Frost.

Comments

[C. dog]

This is a no brainer. Enact the legislation, pronto!
– C. dog

[Troll]

I find iit strange that a libertarian would be so keen to erect an obstacle between them and their right to vote. "You must have government permission (ID) to vote". That sounds very un-libertarian to me. There are different levels of liberty, I guess.

[dave]

Either we fix the integrity of the ballot box or other staets will have good argument to take away First in the Nation status. Who want to compete in crooked election.... except Demoncrats? This is not a new fraud phenomena. It has been well docmented and provided to the Secy of State Gardner and AG Frist since at least the mid 90's. All chose to ignore it at best or prosecute the whistle blowers at worst.

[C. dog]

I find it strange that a troll would not understand the nature of integrity, and how that relates to a ballot box. Of course, I don't find strange a Lib confusing freedom for fraudulent activity. Let's go the the free market for an example:
Mr. Jackass goes to IGA and represents that he's selling authentic Cow-Hampshire beef raised in the pens alongside the mighty, mighty Merrimack. But he really is a foreign cockroach from Vert-Montagne that snuck across one of the bridges under the cloak of darkness, and is selling inferior beef paddocked alongside the giant cesspool that goes by the name of Lac de Champagne.

Now, the brain-adled Lib (I acknowledge the redundancy) thinks, why not? Let freedom reign down on the Grate State of NH so we can help out our comrades across the murky river. How could that hurt anyone? It's only a small, white lie.

But of course, the folks that desire freedom recognize the harm immediately, and need no further explanation.
– C. dog can often be spotted contributing to the flow of the Connecticut by contributing a stream of his own

[Troll]

I think you are not understanding my point. I'm not claiming that voter fraud doesn't exist. Of course it does. Once people get involved, there is going to be fraud. That's just what people do. My point was how much freedom do you want to give up to fight a problem that, while it may exist, is statistically insignificant. The odds of any of this actually changing the results of an election are minimal but some people would still prefer to give up thier right to vote without their government approved papers and spend MILLIONS of dollars to give people these same government papers. I don't know; seems like using a sledge hammer to kill a fly.

[Eureka]

You should talk to leadership in the Statehouse. An Election Law subcommittee had a Voter ID bill ready to go this fall and for who knows why, leadership decided to sabotage it the very day they were to vote on it. The House could have already voted on it and send it on it's way, but now because they put the stops to it, we have to wait for the Senate to get their's through and it's not as good and not as thought out. There is no education piece in the Senate bill for the voters, which is why the Georgia bill got put down by the Supreme Court!! Again, talk to House Leadership!!!!

[C. dog]

Troll –
Which is why I proposed a bounty system that costs you and me nothing because the big bucks come from all those wonderful utes scamming the system. That's what's called a "thrifty" system of checks and balances. By the way, you have no idea how much of this activity occurs. I surmise much does because it's so damn easy to do it. (See growing list in prior post)

A further improvement upon this system which just occurred to me: have two columns on the check list, one for those who showed a valid photo I.D., and one for those who did not. This would give the bounty hunters a more efficient way to hunt down the scabs and pry open their wallets. Maybe the Pooh-bahs can enact such legislation before the close of next year? Why, that would be an X-man miracle!
– C. dog only thinks great thoughts for running Grate States into the ground