Open Democracy Minute
The Open Democracy Minute is a weekly 90-second broadcast on democracy issues and legislation in New Hampshire, so voters can be better informed, and how to be civically engaged. Episodes back to 2019 can be found at https://www.opendemocracynh.org/od_minute As Granny D said, Democracy isn't something we HAVE, it's something we DO!
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March 14, 2022 • 1 min
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After months of promising an open and fair process, the NH Senate Election Law Committee voted last Monday to recommend two rigged voting districts for U.S. Congress and NH Executive Council to the full Senate. The NH Senate will vote on the gerrymandered maps on Thursday, March 17.
Amendments to these maps have been rumo...
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It will be a light schedule in the NH Legislature this week, but we have a heavy topic to discuss: “Provisional Ballots”.
Senate Bill 418 had a hearing a few weeks ago and is coming up for a committee vote on March 7. One of many “Stop the Steal” Big Lie bills this term, SB 418 aims to do away with New Hampshire’...
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We billed last week’s report as a “reckoning” for NH Redistricting, which turned out to be only partially true.
February 14, as expected, the majority in NH Senate Election Law & Municipal Affairs committee did approve a modestly amended NH House redistricting map which denied 54 towns their own House districts...
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February 14, 2022 • 1 min
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. We expect a week of reckoning on the NH redistricting process. Public statements by Governor Chris Sununu asked for changes to the gerrymandered Congressional map, one of a suite of rigged maps for NH Senate, Executive Council and NH House. The House and Senate maps have now been approved by the Senate Election Law c...
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You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. A small but vocal group of Stop the Steal activists have been making the rounds in New Hampshire. As a voter, you have reason to be concerned.
For some weeks, proponents of the Big Lie of voter fraud narrative have been organizing a “petitioned warrant article” in 20 towns around the state which use the annual “Town ...
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A fascinating NH Senate Election Law & Municipal Affairs committee hearing on Monday, as the House-approved Congressional & NH House voting districts had a public hearing.
The House-approved HB 50 NH House district map has been updated with an amendment, giving one more rep to Manchester, changing a distri...
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You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. Happy Granny D Day, honoring America’s campaign finance reformer Doris “Granny D” Haddock on her January 24 birthday.
There are two good bills in the NH Legislature this week, after the two previous weeks of Big Lie-fueled voter suppression bills.
On Monday, January 24, the NH Senate hears SB 425, a reintroduct...
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It’s only January 17th, and already this year the majority in the NH House has passed gerrymandered House & Congressional maps, and introduced several bills based on fabricated accusations of voter fraud.
HB 1542 and SB 418 try to bypass New Hampshire’s Qualified Voter Affidavit, which allows registering v...
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The NH House had its full session last week, Jan 5th, 6th & 7th and started with parliamentary trickery by moving their redistricting bills from Thursday to Wednesday. With 20 Democrats not voting, the gerrymandered Congressional districts were passed with a 22-vote margin. House district maps, which did NOT g...
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A big week in redistricting coming up in New Hampshire. The full NH House meets this Wednesday, Thursday and possibly Friday to consider overrides on gubernatorial vetoes, votes on bills retained in committee at the end of the 2021 session, and redistricting bills.
We’ve been keeping you up-to-date on developmen...
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While we await the return of the U.S. Senate to Washington for further action on the filibuster rules and the Freedom to Vote Act, back here in New Hampshire, the gerrymandered Congressional and House voting district map proposals come up for a full NH House vote on January 6 or 7.
An almost unanimous torrent ...
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After months of letters, calls and emails from constituents asking her to change or abolish the filibuster, and to support the Freedom to Vote Act, U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan came out forcefully this past week on the Senate floor, and in a subsequent interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow.
(Recording of U.S. Sena...
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You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. This past week, President Joe Biden convened the Summit for Democracy, a virtual meeting of world democracies. Democracy activists in the U.S. are hopeful that President Biden will do what it takes to protect democratic institutions by pressuring the US Senate to pass pending democracy legislation. Here are a portio...
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Holidays or no, there is one month left before the full NH House votes on the gerrymandered Congressional maps, and NH House maps that kept 53 NH towns from getting their own Constitutionally-guaranteed districts.
Activist groups around the state have commenced calling state representatives to make sure they atten...
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While New Hampshire activists gear up to fight the NH GOP-proposed gerrymandered voting districts, the bill in Washington which would end gerrymandering, the Freedom to Vote Act, has been blocked so far by a GOP filibuster in the U.S. Senate.
The last attempt to debate it was November 3rd, and since then, other Bide...
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Hearings in the NH House Special Committee on Redistricting were held last week on proposed Democratic and Republican maps for NH House, U.S. Congress, and County Commissions.
The bombshell GOP map proposal that severely gerrymandered the Congressional maps spurred outrage and almost universal condemnation. And...
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After months of claiming there would be a fair, transparent process, the majority in the NH House Special Committee on redistricting dropped a gerrymandering bomb on the voting districts for US Congress.
Earlier this year, a widely-reported comment by NH GOP chair Steve Stepanek predicted that because his party cont...
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This past weekend, the Map-a-Thon Coaltion, a group of over 250 NH voters who have been working since May, released their NH House voting district maps for review by the public. The group had previously released maps for the NH Executive Council, NH Senate and U.S. Congress. The maps can be found at OpenDemocracyNH....
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As expected, the move to debate the Freedom to Vote Act in the US Senate was stonewalled with the filibuster, adding more pressure to change or abolish the archaic Senat rule. Eager to get a win, even President Biden expressed openness to changing the filibuster rules in an interview last week.
This week, the Joh...
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It appears that the Freedom to Vote Act will get its first of a number of votes in the U.S. Senate later this week. The first move will be to allow debate on the Freedom to Vote Act, which allow the larger public to learn more about the bill’s protection of the voting rights, stopping efforts to make voting harder, p...
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