N.H. Admin. Code § Pub 303.14 - Mail Balloting Elections
(a) The board shall conduct mail
balloting elections in circumstances when on-site balloting is
impracticable because:
(1) Eligible
voters are so dispersed across the state that they do not associate
or converse with each other; and
(2) There are a multitude of
work-sites or there are no central work-sites.
(b) In the event mail ballots are
used in the election, the notice of election provided in
Pub 303.04 shall so
state, and said notice shall also indicate the date the ballots shall
be mailed or distributed to the prospective voters and the latest
date on which the completed ballots shall be received at the offices
of the board for purposes of being counted.
(c) The format of mail ballots
shall be the same as provided in
Pub 303.06 unless:
(1) The parties agree to a changed
format; and
(2) The board
or its executive director approves the changed format.
(d) Mail ballots shall
be returned to the board in 2 envelopes as follows:
(1) The first and smaller envelope
shall contain the voted ballot and will be marked or designated
"Ballot Envelope";
(2)
The second and larger envelope shall be marked "Mail Envelope" in
which the ballot envelope is placed and mailed to the board;
and
(3) The mail envelope
shall be pre-addressed and postage paid and shall have a return
address which identifies the voter by name and address.
(e) Voter failure to
comply with the identity requirements on the mail envelope or
destruction of any identifying mark thereon shall disqualify the
ballot contained therein from being counted.
(f) When the mail ballot envelopes
are received at the offices of the board, they shall be identified
and segregated according to the bargaining unit involved. At the time
designated for counting the ballots, each mail envelope shall be
authenticated by comparison with the list of eligible voters, and the
ballot envelope shall be removed from the mail envelope and deposited
in a suitable container along with other ballot envelopes from the
same election in order to preserve the anonymity of the voter.
Thereafter, all ballot envelopes shall then be opened, the ballots
removed and counted at random, and the results recorded as provided
in Pub 303.07.
(g) All challenges to mail ballots
which are based on or concern the identity of the voter or voter
eligibility, and which are made pursuant to
Pub 303.08, shall be
raised prior to the removal of the ballot envelope from the mail
envelope.
Notes
#7187, eff 1-8-00, EXPIRED: 1-8-08
New. #9114, INTERIM, eff 3-27-08, EXPIRED: 9-23-08
New. #9441-B, eff 3-27-09
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