The New Hampshire attorney general’s office has accused the Democratic National Committee (DNC) of unlawful voter suppression and violating state election laws in a cease and desist order sent to the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee (RBC) on Monday.
The Jan. 8 demand letter was prompted by DNC leaders urging New Hampshire Democrats to declare the upcoming state primary to be nonbinding and to “educate the public” that the results will be “meaningless.”
The instructions were outlined in a Jan. 5 letter from RBC co-chairs Minyon Moore and James Roosevelt Jr. to New Hampshire Democratic Party (NHDP) Chairman Ray Buckley. In the letter, the chairs instruct Mr. Buckley that the Jan. 23 New Hampshire primary “cannot be used as the first determining stage of the state’s delegate selection process” and that the NHDP and the presidential candidates should “take all steps possible not to participate.”…