Here’s my short form version of Governor Lynch’s veto message regarding the voter disenfranchisement bill, SB129:

• The right to vote is fundamental -  mess with that right at your own risk.
• “There is no voter fraud problem in New Hampshire.”
• It is embarrassing how stupidly convoluted the photo requirement is.
• It disenfranchises old people.
• It disenfranchises young people.
• It disenfranchises people from small towns.
• It disenfranchises our rural population.
• It disenfranchises the disabled.
• Everyone sane is against this bill.
• There is no evidence this bill is needed.
• Perversely, this bill makes it easier to register to vote than to cast a vote.
• This bill is discriminatory.
• Did I mention yet just how stupidly convoluted the photo requirement is?
• This bill will disenfranchise innocent people on election day.
• This bill does not guarantee a voter’s right to ballot secrecy.
• This bill will screw up our primary.
• And by so doing, disenfranchise our men and women in uniform.
• And also by so doing, likely violate federal law on absentee ballots. 
• Therefore, I am vetoing hopelessly flawed, disenfranchising, discriminatory bill.

Nowhere in the Governor’s veto message is any mention of the fact that this bill is a shameless, anti-democratic, partisan plot on behalf of House Speaker Bill O’Brien to give Republicans an edge in the next election.