Bill Text: NH SB114 | 2017 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibiting a candidate from receiving the nomination of more than one party.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-06-01 - Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Voice Vote 06/01/2017 House Journal 17 P. 8 [SB114 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2017-SB114-Introduced.html

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SB 114  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2017 SESSION

17-0971

03/01

 

SENATE BILL 114

 

AN ACT prohibiting a candidate from receiving the nomination of more than one party.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Feltes, Dist 15

 

COMMITTEE: Election Law and Internal Affairs

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill prohibits a candidate from receiving the nomination of more than one party.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

17-0971

03/01

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen

 

AN ACT prohibiting a candidate from receiving the nomination of more than one party.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  Electronic Ballot Counting Devices.  Amend RSA 656:42, VIII(e)(4) to read as follows:

(4)  The town or city clerk shall mark the test ballots in such a way as to demonstrate a vote for each candidate on at least one test ballot, as well as votes for less than and more than the number of candidates that may be voted for an office, write-ins, [multiple votes for a candidate who appears in more than one party column for the same office on a general election ballot,] and ballots on which there are no votes.  The clerk shall mark as many as possible of the combinations of choices that a voter may indicate on the ballot.

2  Candidate of One Party.  Amend RSA 659:91-a, I to read as follows:

I.  Any person who runs as a candidate on any party's state primary election ballot [and who is not chosen as the candidate for that party for the elective office for which the person was a candidate] shall not under any circumstances run as the nominee of a different party in the state general election.  No person may accept the nomination of more than one party for any office.

3  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.