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The League of Women Voters of New Hampshire, Coalition for Open Democracy, Forward Foundation, and five current and future voters filed a federal lawsuit today challenging HB 1569, a new, significant, and unconstitutional change to New Hampshire’s voting laws that would create needless barriers to vote and remove some options that people are able to use when registering to vote. The groups are represented by the ACLU of New Hampshire, American Civil Liberties Union, and Ropes & Gray LLP.
A lawsuit filed Monday challenges a New Hampshire law that would require proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote and photo identification when casting a ballot, restrictive voting law.
Election and voting rights were the focus of this year’s Brown Forum for Women in Law Conference hosted by Northeastern University School of Law. This year’s conference was entitled “Women, Media, and the Law: Impacting Elections 2024.”
Our chief counsel and senior director of advocacy and litigation, Celina Stewart, attended the conference and spoke on its voting rights panel.
The League of Women Voters of the United States, the League of Women Voters of New Hampshire, and several individual New Hampshire voters have filed a motion for preliminary injunction in the US District Court of New Hampshire asking the court to stop the defendants from producing, generating, or distributing AI-generated robocalls, text messages or any form of spoofed communication impersonating any person, without that person’s express consent.
The highly anticipated New Hampshire primary almost always received considerable media attention. The League of Women Voters of the United States and our partners at the National Task Force on Election Crises attended the Granite State’s primaries for the first time to ensure a successful process through some on-ground election observing.
This story was originally published by The Washington Post.
The League of Women Voters of New Hampshire accuses campaign consultant Steve Kramer and telecom companies Life Corp. and Lingo Telecom of voter intimidation, coercion and deception in violation of federal and state laws, including the Voting Rights Act and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.