Voting rights

Don’t assume you’re still registered to vote. Check now.

Don’t wait until Election Day. Take two minutes now: go to app.sos.nh.gov/voterinformation or call your town or city clerk.

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Under a 2025 law (SB 221), New Hampshire now verifies its voter checklists every year instead of once a decade.

 

Mistakes in voter list can happen. Election officials acknowledge that maintaining accurate voter rolls requires matching millions of records across multiple government databases, and no database is perfect. Possible errors include:

• Address matching errors that incorrectly identify a voter as having moved.

• Returned election mail caused by postal errors, missing apartment numbers, forwarding issues, or temporary delivery problems—not because the voter moved.

• Data-entry or clerical mistakes when updating registrations or processing voter records.

• Confusion between people with similar names, especially family members or those with common names.

• Delayed database updates that leave records temporarily inconsistent.

• Confirmation notices that are never received or overlooked, preventing voters from responding.

• Incorrect death records matched to the wrong person.

• Duplicate-registration matching errors involving similar records.

 

For these reasons, both the U.S. Election Assistance Commission and state election officials encourage voters to check their registration before every election, even if they have lived at the same address for years. Don’t risk being turned away at the polls, check your registration status in advance.

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Be prepared on Election Day

 

On Election Day—September 8 for the primary and November 3 for the general election—every voter must present a government-issued photo ID to receive a ballot. Student IDs no longer qualify.

 

If possible, bring proof of citizenship—on paper or on your phone. Under legislation finalized in June (HB 1062), the state may “randomly” audit the citizenship of affidavit registrants using databases that a federal judge found unreliable for people born or married outside the state. An eligible voter flagged by a bad match can be referred to the Attorney General. Bringing your documents from the start can help you avoid that.

 

If you need to register or re-register, bring documents proving your age, citizenship, identity, and domicile. A birth certificate or passport proves citizenship. If you don’t have either, a May federal court ruling again allows you to sign an affidavit, but it covers only citizenship. A driver’s license with your current address satisfies the other three requirements, or you can use a lease, utility bill, or tax document.