Educational Resources

This website has information and resources for residents of Lebanon. 

Your vote is your voice! Make sure you are not silenced. Residents of Lebanon can register at the City Hall, which is at 51 North Park Street. 

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To be eligible to register to vote, you need to be: 

• A United States citizen

• At least 18 years old on election day

• A resident in the town/city ward you seek to register in.  

More information about registering to vote in New Hampshire is on the state website. 

NH Republicans have made it harder to register to vote. Learn what you need to do to defeat the new anti-democratic voter registration law:

If you are registered to vote in NH, have not moved or changed your name, you don’t have to do anything different. Just show up with a Driver’s License or other proof of your identity, age and residence.

For those who have never voted in NH before, in order to register to vote you have to prove citizenship, as well as identity, age and residence. A Driver’s License is no longer accepted as proof of citizenship. A passport, birth certificate or naturalization papers will work.

If you have lived here but have NOT voted in NH for a while, you may have been purged (“swept”) from the voter registration rolls. If you have been purged you need to re-register proving identity, age and residence, however there is a legacy file that will have your citizenship on record.

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You can go to Vote.org (www.vote.org/am-i-registered-to-vote/), type in your information, press enter and then scroll down to see if you are still registered in NH.

If you have been an active voter in NH and moved from Hanover to Lebanon, your citizenship is already on the rolls. You still have to prove your identity and domicile (where you live.) A driver’s license proves identity, age and if your residence is current, it will prove that as well.

If you’ve changed your residence and don’t have the new address on your Driver’s License, you will need a government issued photo ID, vehicle registration, government issued tax-document, or a government issued check (all listing your residence) – unless you are a student at Dartmouth. In that case see “Dartmouth Students” below.

If you have changed your name, a birth certificate will no longer serve to prove your citizenship; you will need to provide documentation of the change, if that documentation isn’t evident on other documents you provide.

You can’t represent your neighbor in their absence to get them registered. You CAN represent an elderly family member.

A good source for your birth certificate, if you were born in NH, is the Town Clerk where you were born or the Vital Records office in Concord. (Many states have a Vital Records Office. If you were born in the USA, the Town Clerk in the town here you were born is likely to have it. The hospital where you were born will also have it).

Dartmouth Students residing in a NH town or city can register where you live. You need a letter from the college asserting your domicile. You still need to prove your citizenship – a passport, birth certificate or naturalization papers will do that. Real ID does NOT prove citizenship.

Please don’t put it off, because registering/re-registering to vote will take more time than ever before.

Everyone in NH: To make sure you are registered to vote in NH to the Secretary of State's website here (https://app.sos.nh.gov/voterinformation). Scroll down to see your status.

Conversation canvassing has been called “possibly the most successful mode of political persuasion ever measured.”

Grafton County Democrats adopted conversation canvassing (which began as a version of “deep canvassing”) as a pilot project for the 2022 elections. They conducted 10 training workshops on the technique with 100 volunteers in six counties. Conversation Canvassing NH (CCNH) is continuing this effort into the 2026 election cycle.

CCNH’s goals are to:

• Engage volunteers at the grassroots level in listening conversations, and

• Develop statewide, sustainable year-round teams dedicated to progressive values.

CCNH will identify, recruit, train and motivate up to 50 geographic groups throughout NH. Training workshops will continue as needed through election day 2026. Door-to-door, issues-based canvassing began in 2025. This will transition into candidate support in the summer of 2026.

For more information and to see an initial video presentation about Conversation Canvassing, see https://www.conversationcanvassing26.org

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Keep these phone numbers easily accessible and follow the instructions if you see agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) in our area:

NH Hotline: (978) 219-7586
Granite State Organizing Project

VT Hotline: (802) 881-7229
Migrant Justice

To join the Upper Valley ICE and CBP Notification Text Alert, text the message “NOTIFY” to (603) 919-9847.

The single, best preparation to resist ICE in our neighborhoods is to hold block parties and develop bonds of friendship with your neighbors. That’s what they did in Minnesota, and it resulted in thousands of people promptly and effectively mobilizing their rapid responses when it became necessary.

At a recent “Rapid Response 101” training we learned that sighting ICE or CPB and reporting their presence is a very helpful thing to do. If you think you see either, call the appropriate number listed above, right away, and share the following:

Activity: What are they doing? (Apprehending someone, stalking a neighbor’s apartment, hanging out at a gas station?)

Location: Where are they, be as precise as you can be. Share town/city, cross roads, mile markers, etc.

Equipment: Are they armed? Using cones? Anything else?

Request Aide: Are action steps needed?

Time/Date: Are you seeing it right now? Was it in the last half-hour? That’s the most helpful. If you saw it three days ago, it’s fine to call but not as helpful.

Appearance: Who are they? (ICE? CPB?) How many are they/ What are they wearing?

The acronym ALERTA might help you remember what to tell them. Your call will trigger a Rapid Response team to investigate. They will go out and see what’s happening. That’s why it’s important to call right away. If someone is being apprehended, they’ll record the event and provide whatever support they can.