RNC argues that the student-ID injunction risks election disruption
Republican National CommitteePolitical party committee, through counsel
The RNC supports pausing the injunction, arguing that changing instructions shortly before voting risks confusion and that the challengers delayed. This is its litigation argument on timing.
“The Court should stay the injunction.”
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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 RNC argues that the injunction risks late election disruption and that the challengers delayed. The Coalition disputes that account.
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The RNC argues that the injunction, issued less than a month before the election, threatens to disrupt identity verification and violates the Court's guidance in Purcell.
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It adds that the district court had declined to enter relief before the primary, so voters and officials would face different rules in the primary and the general election.
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The reference point is New Hampshire's exclusion of student IDs under the Secretary of State's directive. The RNC asks the Court to stay the order that limited the directive, which supports keeping the state's policy in place for the election.
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Read the full caseJackson argues that accurate guidance prevents voter confusion
“When a federal court determines that material misrepresentations are being made about a State's election rules, an injunction to prohibit that conduct does not contribute to public confusion, it prevents that very problem.”Read statement
Coalition challenges New Hampshire's directive excluding student IDs
“enforces the legislature’s statutes against an executive gloss exceeding the statutes’ reach”Read statement
Tentarelli supports considering student IDs with other evidence
“We at the League of Women Voters New Hampshire think this is a good ruling that student IDs should be considered in spite of the law passed last spring. ... It’s upsetting that this bill passed last spring ... But when it got extended by the Secretary of State to include voter registration, that was an assumption that was not spelled out in the bill”Read statement
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