Supreme Court allows New Hampshire to fully ban student IDs for voting in midterms

The US Supreme Court has allowed New Hampshire to fully ban student IDs for voting during the midterm elections. This decision comes after a lower court ruling that had previously blocked the state's voter ID law from being enforced during the 2022 general election.

The court's decision is based on a 2019 ruling that student IDs are not considered valid forms of identification for voting purposes. In that case, the court ruled that student IDs are not issued by the state and are not recognized as valid forms of identification by the state's election officials.

New Hampshire's voter ID law requires voters to present a valid government-issued ID at the polls. However, the law does not specifically require student IDs to be presented.

The state's election officials had argued that student IDs were not valid forms of identification because they are not issued by the state and are not recognized as valid by the state's election officials. The decision by the Supreme Court allows New Hampshire to enforce its voter ID law as written, without any restrictions on the types of IDs that can be used to verify a voter's identity.

This means that voters in New Hampshire will not be required to present a student ID in order to cast their ballot. The midterm elections are scheduled to take place in November 2024.

The Supreme Court's decision will have a significant impact on the voting process in New Hampshire, and will likely be closely watched by election officials and advocacy groups.