Scanlan on Trump’s order: Feds ‘cannot usurp NH’s express constitutional authority to run elections’
New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan responded to an executive order from President Donald Trump seeking to influence state-run elections by reaffirming the state’s sovereignty over election-related matters. Trump issued the executive order Tuesday, seeking to create a master list of U.S. citizens eligible to vote and instructing the U.S. Postal Service not to […]
The DOJ wants states to send it copies of voters’ names and addresses as well as sensitive information such as driver’s license and Social Security numbers. Here’s why many states have refused.
After the Voting Rights Act, federal election observers helped ensure fair voting, but that oversight has increasingly shifted focus − to monitor what Washington says is voter fraud and accusations of cheating.
PeopleFinders reports celebrities use legal strategies to protect their privacy by hiding public records, while ordinary people can take similar steps.
New Hampshire Senate Republicans passed a bill Thursday to bar high school and college students from using their institution’s identification cards to vote, sending the measure to Gov. Kelly Ayotte’s desk. House Bill 323 would remove a voter’s ability to use a “valid student identification card” to prove their identity to obtain a ballot. Currently, […]
A state law requiring hard proof of citizenship to register to vote for the first time could lead to more voters turned away during the upcoming September and November federal elections, New Hampshire Secretary of State Dave Scanlan testified in court Friday. “I would expect there would be an increase of voters in that situation […]
For the Coalition for Open Democracy, helping New Hampshire residents register to vote is part of the mission statement. But by the end of last year, Executive Director Olivia Zink noticed a development. Despite growing its volunteers, the organization helped register far fewer voters at its in-person events in 2025 than it did in 2023 […]
A federal judge heard opening arguments Monday in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a 2024 state law that requires first-time vot…
Trump administration lawyers suing New Hampshire officials to gain access to the state’s voter file are now seeking to block a group of New Hampshire residents from entering that lawsuit. In a legal memo submitted Friday to the U.S. District Court of New Hampshire, attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice said the residents do […]
LACONIA — New Hampshire Secretary of State David M. Scanlan and Laconia City Clerk Katie Gargano remind Laconia voters and individuals who qua…