Plaintiff's lawyers welcome the student-ID injunction and keep challenging HB 323
Free Speech For PeopleCounsel for the plaintiff, the Coalition for Open Democracy, in a statement of plaintiff's counsel
The plaintiff's lawyers welcome the injunction against barring officials from considering student IDs and say they will keep arguing that HB 323 is unconstitutional.
“We are pleased that the court enjoined as unconstitutional any effort by New Hampshire to prohibit or discourage voting officials from considering student IDs as evidence of identification when registering and voting in New Hampshire elections. ... We will continue to urge the courts to recognize that HB 323 violates the constitutional right of students to vote and must be enjoined in its entirety.”
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New Hampshire asks the Supreme Court to pause the student-ID ruling; challengers oppose the exclusion
New Hampshire asks the Supreme Court to pause an injunction allowing election officials to consider student IDs with other evidence of identity. The Coalition for Open Democracy, which brought the lawsuit, and its lawyers defend the injunction and continue challenging HB 323, the separate law removing student IDs from the list of accepted IDs.
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Free Speech For People and co-counsel welcome relief against the directive and say they will continue challenging HB 323 itself. The statement acknowledges that the court left that statute in place.
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Free Speech For People and the Mintz law firm represent the Coalition for Open Democracy, which sued over HB 323 and the April 23 directive. The October 2 ruling blocked the directive's bar on considering student IDs and left HB 323 in place.
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Between these passages, the statement says the court ordered that student IDs may be considered under the safety-valve provision and that the decision did not yet block HB 323.
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Why this label?
The reference point is the state's categorical exclusion of student IDs from consideration under existing identity-verification safeguards, which Secretary of State David Scanlan's April 23 directive set out. Counsel for the plaintiff say they are "pleased that the court enjoined as unconstitutional" any effort to stop officials from considering student IDs as evidence of identification, so we labeled the statement Condemned. The closest competing label is Challenged the characterization; it loses because the statement endorses the finding that the exclusion is unconstitutional rather than disputing how it is described. The further challenge to HB 323 concerns the separate statute.
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