Coalition challenges New Hampshire's directive excluding student IDs
Coalition for Open DemocracyPlaintiff organization, through counsel
The Coalition argues that the injunction enforces existing statutes against the Secretary's broader interpretation. It says the order leaves the law intact and lets officials consider student IDs alongside other evidence.
“enforces the legislature’s statutes against an executive gloss exceeding the statutes’ reach”
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Supreme Court pauses the New Hampshire student-ID ruling; challengers still contest the exclusion
On October 22 the Supreme Court paused an injunction that had allowed New Hampshire election officials to consider student IDs with other evidence of identity, granting a stay requested by Secretary of State David Scanlan. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented. The Coalition for Open Democracy, which brought the lawsuit, continues to challenge HB 323, the separate law removing student IDs from the list of accepted IDs.
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The Coalition argues the injunction enforces existing fallback procedures. Its argument is not the Supreme Court's holding.
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The Coalition argues that every election-timing case New Hampshire cites stayed a federal order that displaced a rule enacted by a state legislature, and that here no law is enjoined.
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It adds that the Secretary issued revised guidance the next business day and that his website has told voters since the October 2 order that supervisors may consider a student ID along with other evidence.
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The Coalition opposes the Secretary's broader exclusion of student IDs by arguing that it exceeds the statutes. Its defense of the corrective injunction expresses that opposition.
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