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So the NH house of reps has 400 members, with multiple members selected from at-large districts... is this a system of proportional representation? If not, what voting system is used instead? -- pde 02:39, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

No. In theory, the state is divided up into districts - many covering several towns, but some covering only a portion of more populous cities - so that in theory each voter has equal representation in the House. The districts are of various size, with as few as three seats and as many as 11. (I'm not certain those are the extremes, but they're close) So a district with 8 representatives should, in theory, contain twice as many residents as a district with 4 representatives. It doesn't quite work out, of course. Within any given district that has X seats , the top X vote-getters in the general election go to the Legislature. - DavidWBrooks 12:55, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

That sounds like (non-preferential) proportional representation to me, provided each voter only gets to vote for one candidate. If Greens or Libertarians (for example) made up over 1/9th of the vote in an 8 member district, they would elect representatives. -- pde 03:41, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

You get to vote for as many candidates as there are seats in your district. In my town, for example, there are four seats in our district. Four Republicans and four Democrats are running - I vote for up to four out of that total of eight (I can vote for three or fewer, if I want). Minor party candidates could (and in rare occasions have) vote in representatives. - DavidWBrooks 18:54, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Okay, that's bloc voting, which sucks. -- pde 09:00, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Benson is still governor

Note to the anon who keeps changing the governor: Until Lynch is sworn in, which doesn't happen for a few weeks, Craig Benson is still governor. - DavidWBrooks 23:39, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Note: the new executive is now to be referred to as Lynch The Governor.Mlorrey 02:59, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

external links

I've removed a few external links, leaving only a couple official state web sites. Wikipedia is not a link farm, and we don't need to connect to any web site discussing/arguing aspects of life in New Hampshire; it would swamp the article. I also removed the U-L's website, since there are a variety of other, competing private sites and we don't want to list all of them. - DavidWBrooks 14:32, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Who are you to decide what the New Hampshire Wikipedia entry should look like? Has the article been swamped with external links? Just 3 or 4 ....hmmm maybe not a problem then. I don't like windbags censoring me. Russell Kanning

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"NH residents keeping NH free" is not an NPOV description of the site [1] (http://www.nhfree.com). How about "The New Hampshire Underground, a fundamentalist libertarian website in NH"? My adjectives may not be quite accurate, I am not too familiar with nhfree.com; wikipedia defines "fundamentalist" currently as "strictly adher[ing] to founding principles", which seems to fit well. I am not sure if "libertarian" should be replaced my minarchist (a term that is easy to understand, but nevertheless I have never heard before). Aleph4 16:02, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

That wouldn't be too bad of a description. :) NHfree.com doesn't really censor content so it can go in any direction people might take it. We use the site for all sorts of NH related topics so I thought it belonged on the NH wikipedia page. We seem to attract people from all over the political spectrum, so I don't see its inclusion here as going against the point of the whole wikipedia. I am not that interested in the Wikipedia becoming just another arm of academia and political correctness, so I think we should allow more variety in content, descriptions, and opinions. :) Russell Kanning

Forget my "POV" dig and anybody's opinion of the site. The point is that an article about New Hampshire is not a link farm for any website dicussing aspects of life in New Hampshire - there'd soon be 500 of them, swamping the article. Browsers wouldn't be able to open it! Gun owners, gun haters, pro/con toll booths, save the shipyard, maple syrup sucks, Monarchs vs. Ice Cats, Free Staters, Massholes Are Ruining Everything, etc. etc. etc. (Imagine what the California article would look like!) Once agin, wikipedia is not a link farm to all Web debate related in some form the article at hand. It's not that this site is wrong or bad, just inappropriate as an external link. - DavidWBrooks 17:37, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Well, we have a three-revert rule here on wikipedia (don't make the same/similar edits three times in one day) to prevent pissy edit wars, so the inappropriate link will last a day. I will fix the other errors, though. - DavidWBrooks 18:52, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Benson mention

To the anon who keeps putting in a mention that Lynch beat Benson: That doesn't seem appropriate here - after all, we don't mention who all the other elected officials defeated! Lynch's article covers this in depth. - DavidWBrooks 12:41, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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If the tidal portion of a river is used to determine a state's "coastline," wouldn't the District of Columbia then have a shorter coastline than Penn. or N.H. since the Potomac is tidal up to the Key Bridge? Another case of no D.C. representation!! (CBG, Washington, D.C.)