Darryl Perry has this letter in the Union Leader, the largest newspaper in New Hampshire. It points out that HB 98, the bill to move the non-presidential primary from September to August, is flawed. Because New Hampshire requires independent candidates and the nominees of unqualified parties to file declarations of candidacy several months before the primary, if the bill is passed in its current form, minor parties that hadn’t nominated a presidential candidate by mid-May would not be able to get on the ballot.

There is no rational reason that New Hampshire requires petitioning candidates to file any declaration of candidacy months before the petition is due, and that is especially true for presidential candidates.