Help America Vote Act

HAVA mandates that all states and localities upgrade many aspects of their election procedures, including their voting machines, registration processes and poll worker training. 

The specifics of implementation have been left up to each state, which allows for varying interpretations of the federal law, and NH's spending of the funds is basically a black hole.

According to federal statistics, New Hampshire received $16.6 million in HAVA funding. Closely guarded by our increasingly peculiar Secretary of State, more than two thirds of the funds sit unused while our City and Town Clerks grapple with issues such as accessible voting tools either not available or handed over with no training. 

We need to call on the SOS to provide an accounting of the use of these funds and plans to actually improve voting in NH.


This is the entirety available on the SOS's website. 

That is it... see paragraph two... but not here, and no information where it is.

The state plan from 2003

The League of Women Voters New Hampshire understands the issue, and reminds the Election Law Committee in this testimony.