Credit Dan Tuohy | NHPR
A committee in the state Senate is throwing its unanimous support behind moving New Hampshire s state primary election day to early August, one month earlier from the current September date.
It’s the second proposal to shift the timing of the state primary: The Republican-led House is backing a plan that would move primary day even earlier, to late June.
At a meeting of Senate Election Law Committee Monday, Republican Sen. Regina Birdsell of Hampstead said the Senate proposal amounts to a compromise.
“It wasn t as late as September, but it wasn t as early as June, because obviously we got some comments from the town clerks offices, because June is a time when they are doing the tax bills for their towns or cities,” Birdsell said.