A new law in New Hampshire will require anyone registering to vote for the first time in the Granite State to provide documentation they are U.S. citizens, like a birth certificate or passport.
A voter fills out their New Hampshire presidential primary ballot at a polling location in Bedford on Jan. 23.
Republican backers say the new rules will boost confidence in the process, and are a reasonable expansion of voting laws. For months, GOP Gov. Chris Sununu repeatedly told reporters he had concerns about the legislation. Sununu said he was not looking to make any major changes to state election laws and expressed concerns about the bill’s tight timeline.
“We know that voter fraud is vanishingly rare in New Hampshire, and yet this is an extreme effort that will put us on the far fringes of state electoral systems,” he said. “Although it is true that there have not been a lot of prosecutions, I can't tell you that there weren't a lot of people who were not qualified to vote that did vote,” Gray said.
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