The New Hampshire Senate on March 18 rejected a bill that would have made permanent the temporary no-excuse absentee voting put in place last year due to the CCP virus pandemic. New Hampshire relaxed the rules around absentee voting last year, first through guidance from the state’s attorney general and secretary of state and subsequently through legislation. New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, a Republican, signed off on the temporary measure after he had vetoed a similar bill that would have made no-excuse absentee voting permanent. New Hampshire was one of many states which expanded no-excuse mail voting for the 2020 election. The changes contributed to a record turnout for the election but caused concerns about ballot integrity before and after Nov. 3, 2020. The Republican-majority New Hampshire Senate voted 14-10 among partisan lines to kill the bill on Thursday, according to WMUR. Efforts to relax the current restrictions have also been …