On May 16, New Hampshire HB 588 passed the Senate Election Law Committee.  It had already passed the House.  It deletes the requirement that a presidential primary candidate must be a registered member of the party whose primary he or she is entering.

The law has never made any sense, because nineteen states don’t have registration by party.  It has never been enforced.  In 2016, a challenge was filed to Bernie Sanders’ entry into the Democratic presidential primary, but it was overruled.  Sanders lives in Vermont, a state without registration by party.