Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that establishes a new date for the New Hampshire state primary.

Highlights:

• Specifies if the Secretary of State changes the dates of the filing period, he or she is hereby authorized to make a corresponding change to the date of the primary election (Sec. 1).

• Requires the supervisors of the checklist to be in session before each primary for the change of registration of legal voters (Sec. 2).

• Prohibits anyone who is already registered to vote, whether his or her party membership has been previously registered or not, from affiliating with a party or disaffiliate from a party between the first Wednesday in March and the day before the state primary election (Sec. 3).

• Prohibits the name of any person from being printed upon the ballot of any party for a primary unless he or she is a registered member of that party, he or she shall have met the age and domicile qualifications for the office he or she seeks at the time of the general election, he or she meets all the other qualifications at the time of filing, and he or she shall file with the appropriate official between the fourth Wednesday in April and the Friday of the following week a declaration of candidacy (Sec. 6).

• Requires the officer with whom primary petitions are filed to immediately upon receipt thereof examine the same and ascertain whether they conform to the law. If found not to conform thereto or to be conflicting, he or she will then endorse thereon the reason why such petition cannot be accepted and shall, within 24 hours, return the same to the candidate in whose behalf it was filed (Sec. 8).

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