MVDC Actions - Week of 09/07/2025
We’re taking a little break…
See you in October!
There won’t be a full MVDC committee meeting this month while we work on something special for next month. Watch this space for more details about our October 3rd meeting!
Get Your Tickets Now!
2025 Annual Picnic
Hosted by the Hillsborough County Democratic Committee
Live Music, Speakers, Food
50/50 Raffle & Bake Sale
OAK PARK
971 Forest Road
Greenfield, NH
across the street from Greenfield State Park.
11AM to 3PM
Lunch: Hot Dogs or Hamburgers (regular or vegan), potato salad, corn, drinks, chips, and watermelon are included with tickets.
Move the Goalposts Summit is Now Virtual!
"Rebuild & Rise" 2025 Summit
Hosted by Steve Marchand’s Move the Goalposts
Saturaday September 13th
9:00 AM to Noon
A statewide initiative to equip local leaders and activists with the messaging they’ve been asking for, with a unified voice to communicate our vision and contrast it with the opposition’s record.
Registration is free for those who want the training, but find the registration fee prohibitive.
This resource is designed to:
Communicate our values in persuasive, emotionally resonant ways
Hold Republicans accountable for harmful votes
Connect with voters on the issues that matter most
If we don’t define the choice for voters in 2026 and beyond, it will be defined for us!
Protest Opportunities
SAVE THE DATE!
NEXT NH 50501 EVENT 10/18/2025
DETAILS COMING SOON!
Actions You Can Take
NH Actions
From our friends at:
Call or email Governor Ayotte and ask her to join the other 5 NE states + NY, NJ and PA in saving lives.
Governor: (603) 271-2121
GovernorAyotte@governor.nh.gov
You may hav e seen this post on Facebook this week. Health officials throughout the Northeast met to consider adopting their own vaccine guidelines now that federal officials have inexplicably backed away from these miracles that have saved countless lives over the last century. The glaring exception? NH.
Remind Governor Ayotte that as a resident and voter, you’re paying keen attention to her actions.
Read this NH Bulletin Op-Ed by Ethan Underhill: New Hampshire needs to return to its tradition of practical access for voters
Then use this customizable email to urge Members of the House Election Law Committee to VOTE DOWN Anti-Voting Bills!
The House Election Law Committee is scheduled to hold an Executive Session on September 16th at 10AM at Granite Place in Room 158. You can attend in person or watch the livestream online.
Members of the committee will discuss and vote on whether or not to advance bills retained earlier this year, including:
Domicile & ID Restrictions
CACR4: relating to voting eligibility. Providing that only legal resident citizens who are at least 18 years of age or older who reside in the place they claim as a domicile shall be eligible voters.
HB289: regarding domicile qualifications for voting.
HB317: preventing a supervisor of the checklist from verifying a person's identity without identification, even if they personally know that person.
HB323: requiring the presentation of a government-issued photographic means of identification in order to vote.
HB686: requiring a voter to provide identification when requesting an absentee ballot.
Voter Privacy and Data Misuse
HB158: relative to public inspection of absentee ballot lists.
HB341: requiring the secretary of state to check voter records prior to every election.
Ballot Counting & Election Integrity
HB281: requiring electronic voter checklists to be supplied in a sortable format.
HB693: relative to ballot counting procedures and permitting the hand counting of ballots.
SB44: relative to hand counts of ballots in elections.
These bills would make the voting process harder, lead to more inaccurate vote counts, and unfairly target absentee voters—a bloc of voters who will already have it significantly harder with the recent passage of SB 287 and SB 218.
For a slightly different email, you can use this template. You can even do both!
If you haven’t had a chance to do so yet…
Thank NH Secretary of State David Scanlan
Call or email (603-271-3242 or elections@sos.nh.gov) NH's Secretary of State, David Scanlan, to thank him for refusing to comply with President Trump's demand for private information about NH voters.
Keep ICE Flights out of Pease
Sign petition to stop ICE deportation and transfer flights through Portsmouth, NH airport. (Details here.)
Click here to write to the Pease Development Authority requesting they work to stop ICE use of Pease as a deportation center. Say something like:
As a NH resident and voter, I’m very concerned about ICE’s practices and supported the recent Change.org petition asking the Pease Development Authority to halt flights carrying detained immigrants out of Portsmouth International Airport. I’m very encouraged that after listening to testimony last Tuesday, PDA board chair Stephen Duprey committed to exploring the options open to the PDA. Thank you for listening to us and for expressing your support. We are eager to hear updates as you explore your options with staff and legal advisers.