Tuesday NH primary elections, Sept 8, 2026
 

Hey all you NH voters on board, here, the NH Secretary of State has a very helpful and informative actual primary ballot for your individual NH town. It gives you the opportunity to do a little research on all the candidates running for election in your town primary.

Just enter "NH Secretary of State: Sept 8, 2026 primary ballot".

Primary election day voting probably runs from 11am to 7pm, or so ....... on this TUESDAY! ..... :patriot:

Thanks.
But I don't vote in the primaries.
I just have to cover one of our employees that has poll duty.

If you really wanted to vote there are absentee ballots. I use them often just to eliminate the need to go to the polls in case there is a line.

Also, for the less predominant candidates for lower offices it give the opportunity to do a little research when filling out the ballot.

I never vote the primaries.
I am truly an independent (undeclared).

It would take an outstanding candidate in a contested race to make me even take a moment to think about it.
We don't have those.

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If one doesn't vote in the primaries then one has no right to complain about candidates in November or thereafter.

There are no truly contested races on our ballot.

The first contest moving from local upward that we see is whether Ayotte will retain the Republican nomination or lose it to one of the other two.

After that CD-1 has been candidates more about telling us why the other person is a bad choice. Not really inspirational.

Pappas/Sununu is a given.

Of course one does.


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Ah ! Why vote ?

Don't really think that Thomas Jefferson or James Madison would really care.

Now kids let's show some respect for Don and not talk politics.:argue:

Well . . . some apparently interpret James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and all of the hungry, freezing, and starving troops at Valley Forge . . . political ?

Voting is not a political leaning or party. Voting is a civic citizen obligation.

Many of our relatives, friends, neighbors, and ancestors have paid the ultimate sacrifice for this.

Let us all honor them.

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For you younger people, google the 1974 Senate race of Louis Wyman and John Durkin and then don't vote.

"We do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate."
- Thomas Jefferson

If you're not voting you're not participating.

And that is very sad. It's so important yet some people don't have any idea. You would think it doesn't affect their lives.

I for one, am proud to be a US citizen with the right to vote. I will always vote in every primary regardless of whether it is contested or not. I consider it to be my civic duty.

My ballot is mostly uncontested races...
So they automatically advance to the general.

When did they start issuing an "independent" ballot?

They don't.

When you go in they will ask whether you wanted a Republican or a Democrat ballot.

I know how it works, so which ballot do you ask for?

I read both ballots on our town site.

I can see all the races for both parties.

Republicans have contested races for:

State House District 4
Governor
US House CD-1
US Senate

Democrats have contested races for:

US House CD-1
US Senate

Spare you responses for John. He is always looking for the last word. So sad.

He has it. We really shouldn't be talking about politics on the forum anyway.

I'm an independent. I usually switch to a party in the primaries to vote out the free staters.