This bill, relative to presenting photo identification to vote in person, is anti-liberty:
• Part first, Article 11, of the NH Constitution states: All elections are to be free, and every inhabitant of the state of 18 years of age and upwards shall have an equal right to vote in any election.
• Fraudulent voting is already a crime. Existing laws should be enforced against anyone who breaks them, rather than creating new regulations that burden everyone.
• The number of people who register to vote at the polls and don't show a photo ID is vanishingly small. On November 2nd, 2010 only 49 people statewide cast ballots this way.. 1/88th of one percent - hardly a problem which justifies burdening the other 99.989% of voters at the polls.
• Implementing this will increase the cost of elections. Additional staff will have to be availible to handle the late election returns and meet certain time obligations complicated by the additional window to re- ceive ballots after the election, along with the costs for thousands of provisional ballot envelopes around the state.
• This bill promotes a 'papers, please' agenda, where citizens are forbidden from exercising their Consti- tutional right to vote unless they have a government-issued identification card.
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