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Open Democracy Minute
by Brian Beihl
The Open Democracy Minute is a weekly 90-second broadcast on democracy issues and legislation in New Hampshire, so voters can be better informed, and how to be civically engaged. Episodes back to 2019 can be found at https://www.opendemocracynh.org/od_minute As Granny D said, Democracy isn't something we HAVE, it's something we DO!
Episodes
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Episode 32767: American Democracy Minute for March 14, 2022
You're listening to the American Democracy Minute, keeping our government by and for the people. After months of promising an open and fair process, the NH Senate Election Law Committee voted last Monday to recommend two rigged voting districts for U.S. Congress and NH Executive Council to the…
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Episode 32767: Open Democracy Minute for February 28, 2022: A Light Week in the NH Legislature, but a Heavy Topic - Provisional Ballots
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. It will be a light schedule in the NH Legislature this week, but we have a heavy topic to discuss: “Provisional Ballots”. Senate Bill 418 had a hearing a few weeks ago and is coming up for a...
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Episode 32767: Open Democracy Minute for February 21, 2022: Gerrymandered NH House, Senate maps move forward; rigged Congressional, Exec. Council delayed until March
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. We billed last week’s report as a “reckoning” for NH Redistricting, which turned out to be only partially true. February 14, as expected, the majority in NH Senate Election Law & Municipal…
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Episode 32767: Open Democracy Minute for February 14, 2022: A Week of Reckoning on NH Redistricting
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. We expect a week of reckoning on the NH redistricting process. Public statements by Governor Chris Sununu asked for changes to the gerrymandered Congressional map, one of a suite of rigged maps...
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Episode 32767: Open Democracy Minute for February 7, 2022: Stop the Steal activists trying to stop the use of voting machines in NH towns
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. A small but vocal group of Stop the Steal activists have been making the rounds in New Hampshire. As a voter, you have reason to be concerned. For some weeks, proponents of the Big Lie of voter...
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Episode 32767: Open Democracy Minute for February 1, 2022: A NH Senate Hearing on NH House and Congressional Maps
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. A fascinating NH Senate Election Law & Municipal Affairs committee hearing on Monday, as the House-approved Congressional & NH House voting districts had a public hearing. The House-approved HB…
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Episode 32767: Open Democracy Minute for January 24, 2022: Two good democracy bills in the NH Legislature this Week - for a change!
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. Happy Granny D Day, honoring America’s campaign finance reformer Doris “Granny D” Haddock on her January 24 birthday. There are two good bills in the NH Legislature this week, after the two...
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Episode 32767: Open Democracy Minute for January 17, 2022: Several Big Lie-Fueled bills before the NH Legislature
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. It’s only January 17th, and already this year the majority in the NH House has passed gerrymandered House & Congressional maps, and introduced several bills based on fabricated accusations of...
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Episode 32767: Open Democracy Minute for January 10, 2022: Gerrymandered maps pass in the NH House, NH SOS steps down, US Senate considers filbuster rules
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. The NH House had its full session last week, Jan 5th, 6th & 7th and started with parliamentary trickery by moving their redistricting bills from Thursday to Wednesday. With 20 Democrats not...
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Episode 32767: Open Democracy Minute for January 3, 2022: A Big Week in Redistricting in NH with Jan 6 House Vote, and Jan. 10 Senate Hearing
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. A big week in redistricting coming up in New Hampshire. The full NH House meets this Wednesday, Thursday and possibly Friday to consider overrides on gubernatorial vetoes, votes on bills…
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Episode 32767: Open Democracy Minute for December 20, 2021: Gerrymandered Congressional districts come up for vote Jan. 6 or 7 in NH House
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. While we await the return of the U.S. Senate to Washington for further action on the filibuster rules and the Freedom to Vote Act, back here in New Hampshire, the gerrymandered Congressional and...
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Episode 32767: Open Democracy Minute for December 20, 2021: Senator Maggie Hassan Comes Out Forcefully to Change the Filibuster to Pass Voting Rights bills
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. After months of letters, calls and emails from constituents asking her to change or abolish the filibuster, and to support the Freedom to Vote Act, U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan came out forcefully...
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Episode 32767: Open Democracy Minute for December 13, 2021: President Biden's Opening Remarks at the Summit for Democracy
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. This past week, President Joe Biden convened the Summit for Democracy, a virtual meeting of world democracies. Democracy activists in the U.S. are hopeful that President Biden will do what it...
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Episode 32767: Open Democracy Minute for December 6, 2021: Constituents calling State Reps on Gerrymandered maps; NH cities working on ward lines
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. Holidays or no, there is one month left before the full NH House votes on the gerrymandered Congressional maps, and NH House maps that kept 53 NH towns from getting their own...
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Episode 32767: Open Democracy Minute for November 29, 2021: While NH Gerrymanders, the federal bill which can stop it is bogged down in the U.S. Senate
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. While New Hampshire activists gear up to fight the NH GOP-proposed gerrymandered voting districts, the bill in Washington which would end gerrymandering, the Freedom to Vote Act, has been…
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Episode 32767: Open Democracy Minute for November 15, 2021: Voters in Redistricting Map Hearings Condemn Congressional Maps
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. Hearings in the NH House Special Committee on Redistricting were held last week on proposed Democratic and Republican maps for NH House, U.S. Congress, and County Commissions. The bombshell GOP...
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Episode 32767: Open Democracy Minute for November 8, 2021: NH GOP Drops Gerrymandering Bomb on NH's Congressional Districtrs
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. After months of claiming there would be a fair, transparent process, the majority in the NH House Special Committee on redistricting dropped a gerrymandering bomb on the voting districts for US...
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Episode 32767: Open Democracy Minute for November 1, 2021: Map-a-Thon releases NH House Maps; Upcoming Redistricting Hearings
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. This past weekend, the Map-a-Thon Coaltion, a group of over 250 NH voters who have been working since May, released their NH House voting district maps for review by the public. The group had...
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Episode 32767: Open Democracy Minute for October 25, 2021: US Senate Freedom to Vote Act vote, NH House Redistricting committee schedules 2 hearings
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. As expected, the move to debate the Freedom to Vote Act in the US Senate was stonewalled with the filibuster, adding more pressure to change or abolish the archaic Senat rule. Eager to get a…
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Episode 32767: Open Democracy Minute for October 18, 2021: Finally, a US Senate Vote for the Freedom to Vote Act; Last NH Redistricting Hearings
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. It appears that the Freedom to Vote Act will get its first of a number of votes in the U.S. Senate later this week. The first move will be to allow debate on the Freedom to Vote Act, which allow...
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Episode 32767: Open Democracy Minute for October 11, 2021 - Redistricting Hearings in Keene, Claremont & North Conway this week
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. Updates again this week on the Freedom to Vote Act, and NH redistricting. Both are critical to restoring honest elections in New Hampshire, and both are under threat by anti-voter factions. The...
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Episode 32767: Open Democracy Minute for October 4, 2021 - Delays in the Freedom to Vote Act in the U.S. Senate, NH Redistricting Hearings Tuesday & Thursday
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. First a national update. The For the People Act, now revised as a new bill called the Freedom to Vote Act has been put on the back burner while dealing with the debt ceiling, and while Democrats...
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Episode 32767: Open Democracy Minute for September 27, 2021 - 7 more redistricting hearings scheduled in NH Counties
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. Two down, seven more to go. With the Merrimack & Strafford county hearings complete, there was not, unsurprisingly, a single person who testified that gerrymandering New Hampshire's voting...
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Episode 32767: Open Democracy Minute for September 20, 2021 - NH Redistricting Public Hearings Begin - Strafford County this week
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. This Wednesday is the second public “listening session” for the Special Committee on Redistricting, held at the Strafford County Courthouse at 6 p.m. Sept. 22. At last week's hearing in…
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Episode 32767: Open Democracy Minute for Sept. 6, 2021: Since can't count on fair maps from the sate, the Map-a-Thon Citizen Mapping Project draws its own
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. While the state legislature's Special Committee on Redistricting has just started learning how to use its software, the Map-a-Thon citizen mapping project is already busy collecting information...
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Episode 32767: Open Democracy Minute for Aug 30, 2021 - NH Redistricing meeting shows broken software, hearings that aren't hearings, and still no meeting schedule
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. This week's minute was supposed to be about the citizen-drawn redistricting map project called the Map-a-Thon, which meets on Sept. 7, but that will have to wait another week. Instead, the NH...
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Episode 32767: Open Democracy Minute for Aug. 23, 2021 - NH's Special Committee on Redistricting meets Aug 25th, struggles with transparency
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. Last Friday, the NH Special Committee on Redistricting announced its third meeting, this Wednesday, Aug. 25th at 10 am, and indicated that's its agenda is a discussion of the homegrown 2011...
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Episode 32767: Open Democracy Minute for Aug 16, 2021 - The For the People Act vote in the U.S. Senate delayed until September
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. After bruising negotiations to pass the infrastructure, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer put off last week's expected vote on the for the People Act until the week of September 13, and...
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Episode 32767: Open Democracy Minute for Aug 9, 2021 - Manchin Amendment for the For the People Act vote likely this week
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. As of last Friday, Aug. 6, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has delayed the U.S. Senate's August recess to force action on the infrastructure bill. Next on the agenda before the break may be…
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Episode 32767: Open Democracy Minute for Aug 2, 2021: NH Gov. Chris Sununu signs SB 89 & HB 263, Vetoes HB 98
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. Last week, we told you that NH Governor Chris Sununu had a choice to make on SB 89, a bill which had been amended to disallow any provisions of the federal For the People Act in state elections....
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Episode 32767: Open Democracy Minute for July 12, 2021: Gov. Sununu sees SB 89 shortly, prohibiting NH from using federal "For the People Act" for state elections
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. Earlier this spring, SB 89 was heard in the NH Senate and House Election law committees. We described in May how SB 89 had been a bill with some sensible election improvements. But when it…
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Episode 32767: Votes on filibuster rules & S.1 For the People Act expected by the end of July
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. Democracy advocates are predicting that votes on changing the filibuster rules and a subsequent vote to pass the S.1 For the People Act are expected in the United States Senate by the end of…
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Episode 32767: Open Democracy Minute for July 12, 2021: Celebration of the 26th Amendment in the shadow of proposed state laws trying to make youth voting more difficult
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. This past Saturday in Portsmouth, NH, Open Democracy hosted its annual Seacoast Walk & Rally, this year devoted to the 50th anniversary of the 26th amendment, giving 18-year-olds the franchise…
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Episode 32767: Open Democracy Minute for July 5, 2021: NH Special Committee on Redistricting Struggling to be Transparent
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. The U.S. Census Bureau will release town-level population data in its legacy format beginning in August. Last Tuesday, the NH legislature's Special Committee on Redistricting which will use that...
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Episode 32767: Open Democracy Minute for June 28, 2021
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. If you listened to the press last week, you may have heard that the sweeping democracy-saving voting rights & anti-corruption bill, the S.1 For the People Act is dead. As Mark Twain said, “The...
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Episode 32767: Open Democracy Minute for June 21, 2021
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. This Wednesday or Thursday, the U.S. Senate takes its first vote on the H.R. 1 / S.1 for the People Act, the largest democracy-saving bill in 50 years, and possibly in American history.. With…
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Episode 32766: Open Democracy Minute for June 14, 2021
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. A follow up from last week on some of the bills which passed in the NH House & Senate. We were awaiting the “concur” votes on bills which passed with amendments, forcing them to return to the...
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Episode 32767: Open Demcracy Minute for June 7, 2021
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people. We told you last week about the remaining Democracy bills before the full NH House last Thursday. There's some good news and some bad news. We're glad that SB 46 passed, a bill which allows…
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The Open Democracy Minute is a weekly 90-second broadcast on democracy issues and legislation in New Hampshire, so voters can be better informed, and how to be civically engaged. Episodes back to 2019 can be found at https://www.opendemocracynh.org/od_minute As Granny D said, Democracy isn't something we HAVE, it's something we DO!
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Brian Beihl
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The Open Democracy Minute is a weekly 90-second broadcast on democracy issues and legislation in New Hampshire, so voters can be better informed, and how to be civically engaged. Episodes back to 2019 can be found at https://www.opendemocracynh.org/od_minute As Granny D said, Democracy isn't...
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