A Black Lives Matter protest more accessible to those in the disabled community is being organized for next Friday in Portsmouth.
Amid expected high turnout Tuesday, voters are afraid of intimidation and armed rabble rousers at the polls. But authorities say anyone interfering with a resident’s right to vote will be arrested.
While New Hampshire election officials say there’s been no specific threats or reasons to fear anyone’s right to vote will be interfered with, law enforcement agencies say they are preparing for every contingency.
U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., gave a scathing review Thursday of President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, saying "our destinies are tied together" by the impact.
Speaking of ensuing racial injustices, as well as economic and health inequities and disparities, the congresswoman said, “However, all of these things have been exacerbated and worsened by this administration, while we have been drinking and drinking from this firehose of insult and assault to our senses, to our democracy, to our planet, to our humanity and to our peace of mind.”
President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr. stopped by the DoubleTree Hilton in Manchester today for a Get Out The Vote Event.
Though a recent St. Anselm’s poll shows former Vice President Joe Biden leading Trump by 8 points in New Hampshire, it was a tighter margin than previous polling, which had him up by 12 points earlier in October. Trump Jr. is one of several campaign surrogates to make recent stops in the Granite State to make a final pitch to voters.
With less than a week before the election, President Donald Trump's campaign surrogates are making a push in New Hampshire.
Mick Mulvaney, former acting White House chief of staff, was among those making a campaign stop in Rochester Wednesday. He was joined by South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, 2016 Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and Republican National Committee co-chair Tommy Hicks and local former congressional candidate Eddie Edwards.
A survey conducted by the Asian and Pacfic Islander American Vote (APIA), AAPI Data, and Asian Americans Advancing Justice-AAJC, revealed that Vietnamese-Americans are the only Asian American group to have a majority favorable view of Donald Trump, at 53%. Vietnamese-Americans are also more likely to vote for the Republican candidate in their Senate and House races than any other Asian American group.
College voter registration efforts have continued despite the challenging circumstances the Covid-19 pandemic has placed upon campuses across the state.
In just two weeks New Hampshire residents and college students alike will head to their polling locations to cast their ballots in the Nov. 3 General Election if they haven’t already submitted an absentee ballot.
In New Hampshire, hospitals and organizations that serve these workers say there has been an uptick in mental distress over the past seven months. Still, some in the field say that Granite State professionals may have fared better than healthcare workers in areas harder hit by the virus. Overall, they say the outbreak has put a renewed spotlight on the longstanding issue of burnout — as well as ways to address it.
Cardona is a Puerto Rican immigrant who works a day job at J.C. Swain Enterprise, a telemarketing firm, while pursuing a career in politics. He’s raising a daughter with his husband, John Swain, and is a fierce political advocate for LGBTQ and minority rights. Over the past two years he’s hosted several Democratic presidential candidates at his home, and last year he was the subject of an article in The Washington Post, which discussed his “startling political power” against all odds. This is all despite the fact that Cardona has never actually held elected office -- he was defeated in a run for New Hampshire House of Representatives, Merrimack 2 in 2010.
With the COVID-19 pandemic happening during a critical election cycle, it’s no surprise many voters are turning to mail-in absentee ballots this year. That’s left many people wondering how their vote will be protected in transit to their local clerk’s office.
However, voting by mail is something the military has been doing since the Civil War in 1864, and the processes they have in place have allowed the safe transfer of ballots from soldiers stationed stateside and globally.
As Dover resident Wayne Charrette tuned into the first presidential debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday, Sep. 29 in Cleveland, he decided to take action after President Trump urged his supporters to “go into the polls and watch very carefully.”
So, citing President Trump’s remarks and considering the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on older, higher-risk individuals, Charrette, who did not give his exact age, but said he is in his 30s, decided to sign up to be a poll worker. Thousands of other Americans have made the same decision ahead of the Tuesday, Nov. 3 general election.
In a Politico/Morning Consult poll from late-September, two-thirds of respondents said they didn’t expect to know the winner of the presidential election on Election Night.
Much of that concern has to do with the expanded mail-in voting being done by numerous swing states across the country, according to University of New Hampshire Survey Center Director Andrew Smith.
With roughly two weeks before the Nov. 3 U.S. presidential election, many voters have already cast their ballots now that New Hampshire is allowing anyone with concerns or fears about Covid-19 to submit absentee ballots this year.
However, for those who wish to keep with tradition and cast their ballots in person, another concern for some deals with worries about poll-watchers.
With New Hampshire now allowing all voters to claim COVID-19 as a reason for voting absentee, more Granite Staters than ever will likely cast absentee ballots in this year’s election.
But with concerns around an overloaded mail system amid a global pandemic, how can you make sure your absentee ballot is counted?
President Donald Trump’s campaign team is continuing to send campaign surrogates to New Hampshire as the election draws closer. One of his sons, Eric Trump, is the latest surrogate from the campaign to arrive in hopes of flipping the state red after a narrow defeat in 2016.
Trump arrived at the DoubleTree Hilton Hotel to stump for his father to a full venue — albeit smaller than usual due to socially distanced seating — and a highly enthusiastic crowd, donning MAGA hats and holding Trump/Pence signs. A portion of the event-goers could not be inside due to limited seating.
A few states, including California, allow anyone to collect ballots for drop off, the idea being that some voters may not have an immediate family member available to do so for them, as is the restriction in many states. But the practice has raised concerns about election security, especially as some campaigns and political parties use ballot collection as a strategy to get out the vote.
