NH House Testimony

HB367

House · 2025 sessionRepublicanSigned into law

Partisan town election adoption process

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Changes the method for adopting partisan town elections to match the method for rescinding partisan town elections.

changing the method for adopting partisan town elections to be the same as rescinding partisan town elections.

ElectionsMunicipalities

Status

Signed into law · July 22, 2025
  1. Introduced
  2. House
  3. Senate
  4. Governor
  5. Law

Division of testimony

281 submissions
Support 6Oppose 275Neutral 0
Leane GarlandOpposeHanover, NHfor MyselfFeb 25, 2025

This is not a bipartisan bill. Vote Inexpedient to Legislate.

Patricia MartinOpposeRindge, NHfor MyselfFeb 25, 2025

This would negatively impact consumers and small businesses. I strongly oppose this bill.

Micheline HaganOpposeBarrington, NHfor MyselfFeb 25, 2025

Please vote to support ranked-choice voting.

Sally PattonOpposeNEW LONDON, NHfor MyselfFeb 25, 2025

School districts MUST remain non-partisan!!!!

Claudia DamonOpposeConcord, NHfor MyselfFeb 25, 2025

With all due respect, it is a terrible idea to make school district elections partisan. Regardless of which side of the so-called "culture wars" you are on, the tables may turn at some point and you will be faced with a partisan political solution that you do not like. Let's keep the elections non-partisan.

Jana SellaroleOpposeWalpole, NHfor MyselfFeb 25, 2025

Get rid of gerrymandering! It's un-American, and anti-democratic!

Shirley MontgomeryOpposeHanover, NHfor MyselfFeb 25, 2025

I don't support changing the current law.

Sue NastasiOpposeDover, NHfor MyselfFeb 25, 2025

HB367 isn't needed. Town elections are and should stay nonpartisan.

Julie LevesqueOpposeHollis, NHfor MyselfFeb 25, 2025

I do not support this bill.

Sharon RacusinOpposeHanover, NHfor MyselfFeb 25, 2025

This bill's language specifically targets TOWN ELECTIONS. What about LOCAL do the supporters of this bill NOT understand?

James ArgeriouOpposeCandia, NHfor MyselfFeb 25, 2025

I oppose this bill.

Bob PerryOpposeStrafford, NHfor MyselfFeb 25, 2025

Julie LaracyOpposeConway, NHfor MyselfFeb 25, 2025

I oppose this bill.

Martha Jane RichOpposeEnfield, NHfor MyselfFeb 25, 2025

Adopting partisan school district elections would cause significant and unnecessary harm to the process of recruiting and electing the best school board members. We appreciate and honor the service these people provide apart from their party affiliations. In our district, we often have no idea what party our candidates might favor. This works well. It's a system that "ain't broke," so there's no need to "fix" it.

Jamie CarreauOpposeDerry, NHfor MyselfFeb 25, 2025

We need to leave party politics out of local town elections.

bonnie brunoOpposehollis, NHfor MyselfFeb 25, 2025

I only wish I could be in person in the hearing room to provide the testimony written below: Heck ya! I support cacr2 - full stop. Mic drop. (Though I would not drop the mic used in the hearing room =)

Kathleen BeanOpposeDurham, NHfor MyselfFeb 25, 2025

Although many have chosen a particular party when voting in statewide and national elections, this should not be part of local elections.

Vanessa GravellOpposeSalem, NHfor MyselfFeb 25, 2025

I oppose this bill.

Raymond WatermanOpposeMerrimack, NHfor MyselfFeb 25, 2025

none

Patricia WatermanOpposeMerrimack, NHfor MyselfFeb 25, 2025

none

Gregory DavisOpposeSalem, NHfor MyselfFeb 25, 2025

Partisanship has no place in town elections

Alix OlsonOpposeCanaan, NHfor MyselfFeb 25, 2025

Stop messing with our elections!

Gabriele LiebergOpposeNewfields, NHfor MyselfFeb 25, 2025

I strongly oppose this bill.

Carol PetrusewiczSupportRochester, NHfor MyselfFeb 25, 2025

Passing this bill would solve the number one complaint the voters say to poll workers at EVERY local election.

Steven BorneOpposeRye, NHfor MyselfFeb 25, 2025

WE should not be paying for Partisan elections. Not when 40% of the State voters are un-declared