Following is the text of a communication from Jim Adams to Members of The Election Law Committee.
This information has also been sent to all members of the New Hampshire House of Representatives.
Members of The Election Law Committee
I would like to add to the Testimony from 4/7/2015 for SB-179 from the Granite State Taxpayers (GST) our support of this Bill. Tuesday 4/7/2015 you heard from a number of lawyers from the ACLU, the League of Women Voters, America Votes and numerous other special interest groups testifying that this attempt to simplify voting practice in NH would some how disenfranchise certain voters. GST feels they doth protest too much.
As a non-partisan organization, GST is concerned about Ballot Integrity in New Hampshire. Too many times a number of people voting in our elections are choosing to sign an affidavit stating they do not have a drivers license or any other visible means of identification but live here and want to vote. As a result of these affidavits being utilized to vote, the Secretary of State’s Office sends a follow up letter to the person at the address they claimed was their residence in NH. From the 2012 Election(s) 1786 of these follow up letters were returned by the US Postal Service as Undeliverable As Addressed (UAA), which means the people at the address do not know the individual who used the address, the address is a vacant building or lot, or the person has moved and the letter cannot be forwarded. The follow up letters, UAA were then forwarded by the Secretary State to the Department of Justice for the Attorney General’s office to locate these individuals around mid-June of 2013.
GST contacted the Attorney General’s office on several occasions as to status of the investigation regarding the 1786 UAA recipients. The AG’s office stated they could disclose any information due to the ongoing investigation. It is very important to note that the status of these 2012 UAA missing voters is still in doubt. GST has sent a Right to Know Request per RSA 91-A to the AG’s office to ascertain how many of UAA voters have been located. One would have to think that if they had all been found, it would have been Headline News.
In Summation, when the aforementioned attorneys gave testimony at the hearing stating there is no evidence of wide spread voter fraud, maybe we should all wait for the results of the ongoing (2 Year) investigation of the 1786 missing voters. As mentioned earlier, SB – 179 is a good first step relative to Ballot Integrity.
Best Regards,
Jim Adams
Chairman, Granite State Taxpayers