See call to action below. House Resolution (HR 25) will be voted on in committee on Wednesday, February 14th.
This Resolution would bring NH back in line with our Constitution in how our votes are to be counted (via hand count) and how our absentee ballots are to be administered (require an affidavit) and only people who are disabled or physically out of town are permitted to request an absentee ballot. See part 2 Art. 32 and part 1 Art. 11 of the NH Constitution.
Link to the NH Constitution: https://www.nh.gov/glance/constitution.htm
Link for HR 25 (Click on Introduced): https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/billinfo.aspx?id=1538&inflect=2
CALL TO ACTION:
Please send an email reminder to all committee members who sit on the Legislative Administration Committee that they swore an oath to follow and uphold the NH Constitution. Please urge the committee members to vote, Ought To Pass (OTP) on HR 25. Please include a copy of their oath, listed below their email addresses, in your email.
HR 25 will be voted on this Wednesday February 14.Â
Here are the Legislative Administration Committee Member’s email addresses:
Michael.Costable@leg.state.nh.us
Deborah.Hobson@leg.state.nh.us
Nikki.McCarter@leg.state.nh.us
Allison.NuttingWong@leg.state.nh.us
Stephanie.Payeur@leg.state.nh.us
bethrichardsforward3@gmail.com
alisson.turcotte@leg.state.nh.us
Part 2 Article 84. [Oath of Civil Officers.]
Any person chosen governor, councilor, senator, or representative, military or civil officer, (town officers excepted) accepting the trust, shall, before he proceeds to execute the duties of his office, make and subscribe the following declaration, viz.
I, A.B. do solemnly swear, that I will bear faith and true allegiance to the United States of America and the state of New Hampshire, and will support the constitution thereof. So help me God.
I, A.B. do solemnly and sincerely swear and affirm that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all duties incumbent on me as …………………………………………., according to the best of my abilities, agreeably to the rules and regulations of this constitution and laws of the state of New Hampshire. So help me God.
Any person having taken and subscribed the oath of allegiance, and the same being filed in the secretary’s office, he shall not be obliged to take said oath again.
Provided always, when any person chosen or appointed as aforesaid shall be of the denomination called Quakers, or shall be scrupulous of swearing, and shall decline taking the said oaths, such person shall take and subscribe them, omitting the word “swear,” and likewise the words “So help me God,” subjoining instead thereof, “This I do under the pains and penalties of perjury.”
June 2, 1784
Amended 1792 three times, changing president to governor; shortening oath of allegiance; and dispensing with need to take second oath.
Amended 1970 adding allegiance to the United States of America.
