HB693 Relative to ballot counting procedures and permitting the hand counting of ballots.
Relative to ballot counting procedures and permitting the hand counting of ballots.
Impact Score — How Does This Bill Affect You?
Overall Impact Score
Concerning
Scale: 1 (harmful) to 10 (beneficial)
Your Wallet
Hand counting requires significantly more poll workers and time, increasing election costs for towns.
Your Community
Hand counting introduces more human error and delays results, potentially undermining public confidence in elections.
Your Freedom
Offers an alternative counting method but could lead to less accurate and less timely results.
Status
Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Voice Vote 01/07/2026 House Journal 1 P. 50
Sponsor
Susan Porcelli (R)
The Short Version
Would have allowed towns to hand-count ballots instead of using machine tabulation. Hand counting is slower, more error-prone, and more expensive than machine counting according to election experts.
Who's Behind This Bill?
Who Benefits
- ▲ Those who distrust machine vote counting
Who Pays the Price
- ▼ Taxpayers funding more expensive elections
- ▼ Voters who want timely and accurate results
- ▼ Election workers
Bill statuses as of May 2026. Check LegiScan or NH General Court for the latest.
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