Key facts
- Supreme Court allowed New Hampshire to ban student IDs for voting.
- The ruling was based on the "Purcell principle" regarding election rules.
- Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented from the unsigned decision.
The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for New Hampshire to ban the use of student IDs for voting in the upcoming midterm elections. The justices granted an emergency appeal from the state, which had passed a law earlier this year no longer accepting student IDs as an expressly accepted form of identification for ballots. The secretary of state had issued guidance barring them as a backup method to prove a voter's identity. A judge had blocked this guidance, prompting the appeal.