The New Hampshire League of Women Voters Thursday called on the state Attorney General's Office for a full-scale prosecution of “out-of-state con artists” for allegedly falsely claiming to be recently deceased New Hampshire residents to obtain their ballots during Tuesday's presidential primary.

“The fraud shown on the video was carefully manufactured to make it appear that New Hampshire doesn't have a system of checks and balances in place to protect our votes. That is not the case,” the New Hampshire League of Women Voters said in a statement. The league is a long-standing, non-partisan civic organization.

Project Veritas posted on the Internet its video of about nine instances of people obtaining ballots of deceased residents, claiming it is an example of how easy it is to commit voter fraud.

Manchester City Clerk Matt Normand said dead people are removed from the rolls every month when a list is sent from the state and other communities announcing city deaths.

The date of death for the names used at the Manchester wards was December, too early for the names to have been removed, Normand said.

The League of Women Voters alleged Project Veritas committed “serious fraud.”

State law makes it a crime to use a false name to obtain a ballot.

None of the allegedly fraudulently obtained ballots was cast.

Nor did the video show instances when Project Veritas workers were unable to obtain ballots, according to municipal clerks.

The League asked the Attorney General's Office to prosecute Project Veritas and extended “its sympathy to the families of the recently deceased whose names were used so callously.”

The League said it supports the state's current election system.

“The only thing this video shows is that those with time, resources and criminal intent and with no respect for the fundamental laws of our nation can sometimes deceive our neighbors who work as election officials,” the League continued.

Project Veritas was formed as a nonprofit organization by activist James E. O'Keefe III, according to the organization's website.

New Hampshire Democratic Party spokesman Harrell Kirstein also condemned attempts by “GOP operatives” for “manufacturing” voter fraud to “gin up support for a discriminatory voter ID law.”

The Republican response was exactly the opposite.

“This video has placed a shocking exclamation point on the need for immediate reform to New Hampshire's election laws to ensure that voter fraud does not taint the rights of our citizens to have their votes counted in an honest, responsible way and impact our state,” House Speaker William O'Brien said.

House Majority Leader D.J. Bettencourt said, “It's clear today that the emperor has no clothes and that it's time to undo the damage of the Democrat rule and put some real teeth into the integrity of our elections by passing photo ID and residency laws to ensure that this doesn't happen again.”

State Sen. Sharon Carson, R-Londonderry, said in a statement that she will introduce another voter ID bill. The most recent attempt was vetoed by Gov. John Lynch.

“What happened at polling places in Manchester and Nashua underscores the need for more oversight regarding the voting process.

“Requiring voters to show an ID before taking a ballot is reasonable and that's why I filed SB 318,” she wrote.

Associate Attorney General Richard Head said his office is investigating the case and cannot comment.

AG probes voter fraud in NH after activists get ballots as dead people because they weren't ID'ed