A government issued photo ID is required to get a ballot in New Hampshire. Please bring yours when you vote on Nov. 3 !

If you are ever denied your right to vote or see a problem at the polls, immediately call the NH Attorney General’s toll-free hotline. 1-866-868-3703

Sample ballots for the Nov. 3 election are now available from the NH Sec. of State. Pull down your town from the menu. You may print out or just view your own town or city ward’s ballot. Helpful if you want to research the candidates before you get to the polls.

The NH Secretary of State has issued the following statement to explain Ballot Question 1: “Voters’ Guide. AT THE PRESENT TIME, the constitution references registers of probate while the office’s duties were redistributed to circuit court clerks in 2011. IF THE AMENDMENT IS ADOPTED, the constitution will eliminate the position of register of probate.”

On Oct. 21, the NH Secretary of State issued the following guidance regarding the counting of votes on Ballot Question 2 (the tax cap on school expenses): “Vote Threshold to Pass:  The ballot question provides that “Adoption of the ballot question requires a three-fifths (3/5) majority vote.” RSA 32:5-i, V. The statute provides that the local tax cap will be adopted “[i]f a 3/5 majority of the voters voting in the municipalities and wards served by the school district approve the question.” RSA 32:5-i, VI(a).
For school districts and SAUs that include more than one town or city ward, adoption of the ballot question requires a three-fifths (3/5) majority of the combined results of every town and city ward in the school district or SAU.
The ballot question will only be adopted if 3/5 of the voters approve the question.
Approval requires 3/5 of the voters who voted “yes” or “no” on the question and does not count any voter who cast an overvoted ballot (marking both “yes” and “no” for the question) and who cast an undervoted ballot (marking neither “yes” nor “no”). In other words, the total number of “yes” and “no” votes added together will serve as the denominator when determining whether or not the 3/5 approval has been achieved.

Visit our Voting Info pages for more about voter registration and getting an absentee ballot for upcoming elections. Here is a one-page updated flier with condensed info. Feel free to download and distribute through 2026. Click here for the pdf. 

Plan to vote from a position of knowledge. Get a sample ballot from your own town/city website. Several websites provide non-partisan descriptions of the candidates on NH ballots as well their websites and other information about them. Two of those websites are:

Citizens Count    https://www.citizenscount.org/elections

Ballotpedia   https://ballotpedia.org/New_Hampshire_elections,_2026 

Not registered yet? Remember to bring your proof of identity, age, citizenship and where you live so you can register at your polling place on election day. If you don’t have access to your citizenship documents, you may prove citizenship by signing an affidavit. 

Not sure whether you are currently registered? You can find out at the Sec. of State’s special website: https://app.sos.nh.gov/voterinformation Pull down your town or city. Type in your personal information. Click on Search. Scroll down a bit and you should see your registration information, including your party affiliation, your polling place, and your town/city clerk’s information.  If you submitted an absentee ballot application, you will also see the status of your application.

New law now in effect … Absentee Voting will require showing a government issued photo ID to the city clerk when you request a ballot, or having your signature notarized on your absentee ballot application, or sending a photocopy of your government issued ID with your application. You must do only ONE of these things to get an absentee ballot.

People with visual and writing disabilities can vote independently at all NH polling places using the OmniBallot accessible voting equipment. Anyone may use that machine to cast a ballot.

May 29, 2026  Press release:  court victory. https://www.lwv.org/newsroom/press-releases/victory-court-declares-nh-anti-voter-law-unconstitutional

For our newest citizens for whom English is not a primary language, the NH Secretary of State has voter information in Spanish, French, Portuguese, and simplified Mandarin.  Click here. Información Electoral (espanol), Information sur les élections (French); 选举信息 (Simplified Chinese), and (português) Portuguese.