A good way for voters to understand how their representatives stand on any particular issue is to examine their voting record or ask them straight up how they voted on, for example, voting rights bills.
Recently Gov. Sununu signed into law another voter suppression bill, HB 1569. This bill will not go into effect until after the November election and that is the only good news about it.
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