Claims that new voter registration requirements would disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters — and married women in particular — aren’t just factually untrue; they’re voter suppression. That’s the view of some New Hampshire House Republicans, and they’ve filed a complaint with Attorney General John Formella requesting a review.

In their letter to the attorney general, Republicans on the House Election Law Committee — led by chair Rep. Ross Berry (R-Weare) — quoted a statement made by Joan Dargie, president of the New Hampshire City and Town Clerks Association and released by U.S. Rep. Maggie Goodlander.

“New Hampshire recently enacted a bill that is very similar to the Save Act, and it has already disenfranchised voters in New Hampshire from voting in their town elections. We estimate between 10 and 50 percent of voters will be turned away from voting on election day,” Dargie said.

That statement was part of a press release from Goodlander explaining her vote against the SAVE Act, a federal law requiring people to prove their citizenship when they register to vote in federal elections. Goodlander and her fellow Democrats in Congress have been claiming the law would disenfranchise married women.

“These women would not be able to use their birth certificates to prove their citizenship under the SAVE Act. And, if they do not have a passport, which roughly 44.5 percent of Granite Staters do not, they would not be able to register to vote at all under the SAVE Act,”...

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