Section 657:19 Sending Ballots. - New Hampshire Statutes

Upon receipt of a properly executed application for an official armed services absentee ballot or an overseas citizens federal election absentee ballot, whether the form supplied by the secretary of state, the federal post card application, or a written statement containing the information required by RSA 657:4, a town or city clerk shall send the materials provided for in RSA 657:8 or 657:9, as applicable, regardless of whether the applicant appears on the checklist, and if the applicant requests that the application be considered an application for an absentee ballot for each subsequent election for federal office through the next 2 regularly scheduled general elections, including primaries, for federal office, the town or city clerk shall provide an absentee ballot to the applicant for each such subsequent election. Whenever an armed services voter or overseas citizen federal voter requests a state general election ballot prior to October 1 to be mailed to an address outside of the United States, he or she shall be sent the same ballot as provided in RSA 656:34. No town or city clerk shall refuse to accept or process an otherwise valid voter registration application or absentee ballot application submitted by an absent armed services voter or federal overseas citizen voter on the grounds that the application was submitted before the first date on which the state otherwise accepts or processes such applications for that election submitted by absentee voters. A town or city clerk who does not certify a voter registration application or absentee ballot application shall provide the absent armed services voter or federal overseas citizen voter the reason for not certifying a voter registration application or an absentee ballot application.

Source. 1979, 436:1. 1986, 126:9. 1988, 209:10. 2003, 289:55, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.