State Court in New Hampshire Blocks Proof of Residency Law Aimed at Curbing Student Voting

[Gothmog]

Source: Election Law Blog

The court’s opinion finding the law likely unconstitutional is here. The court gave no credit to the state’s unsupported claim that the law was necessary to prevent voter fraud or instill public confidence.

Despite the proximity to the election, the court enjoined the law’s use in November.

Read more: https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101670

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Here is a link to the opinion https://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/athena/files/2018/10/22/5bce0fade4b055bc94836c93.pdf

[Gothmog]

1. From my twitter feed

Link to tweet

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2. NH Judge Blocks GOP Voter Law With 'Misleading' Registration Forms

This is a major victory
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/nh-judge-blocks-gop-voter-law-with-misleading-registration-forms

A New Hampshire judge blocked a controversial voter registration law in the state for the 2018 elections, in a preliminary Monday ruling that said that the burdens imposed by the law were “unreasonable and discriminatory.”

The law, passed by the Republican-controlled legislature in 2017, expanded the state’s domicile requirements and overhauled the language on the voter registration form in a way that Judge Kenneth Browne said was “inherently confusing or misleading.” The judge ruled that those challenging the law were likely to succeed on the merits to prove the new rules violated the state’s constitutional right to vote......

Judge Brown also brought up how extremely rare voter fraud is. He noted that in the very few instances of voter fraud convictions in the state in recent years, none had to do with abuse of the less complicated affidavit that voters had to sign attesting to they had domicile in the state before this new law went into effect.

“Given the extraordinarily low rate of documented voter fraud in this state, it is far more likely that legitimate voters will be dissuaded from voting than illegitimate voters will be prevented,” he said.

[2naSalit]

3. Back when

I was coming up on voting age, I lived in NH. there was a regular argument about poll taxes and the like. Not surprised the RWNJs are trying to pull it off there. Glad the judge ruled that way.

[Calista241]

4. When i was in college in the early 2000's, I always voted in Georgia.

Even though I went to school in another state. Isn't that the way it's supposed to happen?