What is a Midterm Election?
Let’s start with the fact that U.S. Presidents hold office for 4-years at a stretch. This is referred to as a four year “term” in office.
In Georgia, the most insidious suppression may be weakening the will to vote
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Overseas and Military Voting Laws Demonstrate that National Norms are Possible
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No, the president can’t cancel an election and here’s why…
This year, midterm elections will be held in all states to re-elect or choose new members of congress. All 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, plus 35 U.S. Senate seats will be decided upon. Because voters are typically looking for change, midterm elections characteristically result in the President’s party losing ground in the U.S. House of Representative.
Regardless of your political affiliation, being frustrated by politics or the news is a common form of stress. Unfortunately, negative news captures more views, so after a while, you might feel overwhelmed or powerless despite the additional “information.” Discussions about elections, the President, Congress, or international relations can be very intense.
The Good News: There are things you can do to lessen news-induced aggravation. These include the following:
For decades, U.S. voters have enjoyed the option to cast their ballots by mail. The practice began with soldiers in the battlefield as early as the Civil War. Over the decades, it became increasingly common practice for states to extend special voting accommodations to military members away from home who were faced with uniquely difficult challenges to cast their ballot and have it arrive back to their election office in time for counting. One of these accommodations was for ballots cast by the state deadline to allow ballot counting to continue after Election Day.
HB 1382 is advanced under the banner of election integrity, yet no evidence has been presented of a problem it seeks to solve.
Of particular concern is the bill’s requirement that voters transmit proof of citizenship. In practical terms, this means voters will be asked to scan or photograph highly sensitive identity documents and transmit them electronically, often via unsecured email, across international networks and servers. This creates an obvious and unnecessary risk of identity theft and misuse.
We should never ask citizens to place their personal security at risk in order to exercise their fundamental right to vote.
U.S. Vote Foundation and its Overseas Vote initiative respectfully urge the New Hampshire House Election Law and Municipal Affairs Committee to oppose HB 1342.
HB 1342 is framed as a transparency measure, but in practice it would expose voters protected under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA) to unnecessary and serious physical, cyber, and identity-theft risks. The bill would require the public disclosure of highly sensitive personally identifiable information (PII), including full names and current overseas addresses—information that should never be released in full for public inspection.