Supreme Court Allows New Hampshire to Bar Student IDs at the Polls

New Hampshire ballot desk still life

The U.S. Supreme Court on October 22 allowed New Hampshire to exclude student identification cards from the voting process for the November midterms, including their use as backup evidence of a voter’s identity. The emergency decision pauses a lower-court order while litigation continues; it does not finally resolve the challenge to the state’s restrictions. The … Read more

Learn: How Presidential Nominating Calendars Work and Why Parties Fight Over Who Votes First

Folding chairs arranged in clusters in an empty school gymnasium set up for a community voting meeting.

Reading Every four years the United States chooses a president. Long before the November election, each major party has to decide whom it will put forward. That decision is made through a long sequence of state contests, and the order in which those contests happen is called the nominating calendar. The calendar matters because the … Read more

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