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SOS Dave Scanlan: Federal Court Ruling on NH Voting Rolls and Aaron Day Decision
SOS Dave Scanlan: Federal Court Ruling on NH Voting Rolls and Aaron Day Decision
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Prominent Granite Staters Reading the Declaration of Independence (click Play)

New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan (SOS) joins The Morning Update to discuss the recent federal court ruling on whether States can be compelled to surrender their voting rolls to the federal government. The federal court sided with New Hampshire on the case.

We also talk with Secretary Scanlan regarding the recent NH Ballot Law Commission decision not to allow NH independent candidate for governor Aaron Day on the ballot.

We finished our conversation talking about America and New Hampshire’s 250th Anniversary and the recently release video of prominent Granite Staters reading the Declaration of New Hampshire

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