As noted in an earlier post, on August 13, a state court in New Hampshire refused to enjoin the state from releasing the statewide list of New Hampshire voters to the Democratic and Republican Parties and no other organizations. The ACLU had sued on behalf of the Libertarian Party. The New Hampshire Democratic Party has now sold the list for $65,000 each, to the presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Chris Dodd, and Bill Richardson. This results in income of $325,000 to the state party.

In 1970 the U.S. Supreme Court had summarily affirmed a 3-judge district decision from New York, in Socialist Workers Party v Rockefeller. That decision had said that if a state gives a free list of the registered voters to the qualified parties, it must give the list to unqualified parties on the same terms. The New Hampshire state court in Merrimack County seems oblivious to this precedent, which should be binding everywhere in the nation.