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The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday allowed New Hampshire officials to reject student IDs as a valid form of identification when voters cast their ballots in next month's midterm elections.
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voters → allow → elections
A lower court judge previously found that state officials had improperly gone further than a new law restricting the use of student IDs to obtain a ballot, ruling that officials still had to consider student IDs alongside other evidence when voters lacked other means of verifying their identity.
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voters → find → identity
But the Supreme Court took issue with the judge intervening this close to the elections.
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The high court has said orders handed down too close to an election can cause voter confusion, an idea known as the Purcell principle.
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The court cited the recent legal back-and-forth over Missouri’s redistricting maps.
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"Here, the District Court did not point to anything that would justify deviating from that principle," the majority wrote in its opinion.
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, saying the rule did not apply since the lower court judge was helping ensure the public received accurate information.
"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," Jackson wrote.
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"I would not disturb a clearly justifiable federal-court order issued to ensure that the public receives accurate information about a State’s electoral processes," she wrote.
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This comes after Gov. Kelly Ayotte signed House Bill 323 into law in April, removing student IDs from the list of identification expressly considered valid for obtaining a ballot.
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The law took effect June 2.
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After the law went into effect, New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan issued guidance to election officials about the change, and multiple trainings were held.
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"New Hampshire has a responsibility to protect the integrity of its elections and ensure that election laws are applied as written," New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella, a Republican, said in a statement.
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"The Supreme Court’s decision is an important victory for our efforts to defend those laws and prevent last-minute court orders from creating uncertainty for voters and election officials.
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We will continue to defend New Hampshire’s election laws and the safeguards they provide," he continued.
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The Supreme Court's decision was not a final ruling on the merits of the case, and the underlying litigation over the law remains ongoing.
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