The New Hampshire State House in Concord, N.H. (Photo by AlexiusHoratius from Wikipedia Commons via Courthouse News)
CONCORD, N.H. (CN) The New Hampshire Supreme Court vanquished a Republican voter law from 2017 on Friday, finding its requirements to be unconstitutional.
The unanimous decision upholds a from last April in which a lower court that looked at Senate Bill 3 found the law “unreasonably burdens the right to vote.”
New Hampshire’s Republican-controlled Legislature enacted the law after President Donald Trump claimed, without evidence, that he lost the state in 2016 due to widespread voter fraud. Purporting to shore up voters’ trust in government, SB 3 required new voters to prove they were voting where they resided.
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