The Supreme Court handed New Hampshire a significant election-law victory Thursday, allowing the state to enforce its voter identification guidance just 12 days before the November 3 midterm elections.
The emergency ruling temporarily blocks two lower-court orders that had restricted how election officials could implement the state’s new student identification rules.
At the center of the dispute is New Hampshire’s House Bill 323, which removed high school, college, and university identification cards from the list of documents automatically accepted as proof of identity at polling places.
The law took effect June 2, but a federal court battle over its implementation threatened to change election procedures shortly before voters headed to the polls.
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