On October 2, 2026, a federal district court judge in New Hampshire partially granted the Coalition for Open Democracy’s motion to protect the right of young New Hampshire residents to vote using their student identifications. We are pleased that the court enjoined as unconstitutional any effort by New Hampshire to prohibit voting officials from accepting student IDs as a means of identification when registering and voting at the November election. But the court did not enjoin the recently-enacted New Hampshire law, HB 323, that removed student IDs from the list of forms of ID that election officials must accept as proof of a voter’s identification for the purpose of obtaining a ballot. We will continue to urge the courts to recognize that HB 323 violates the constitutional right of students to vote and must be enjoined in its entirety.

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Read the Order Granting Partial Preliminary Injunctive Relief here.