On July 15, a U.S. District Court Magistrate heard Day v New Hampshire Secretary of State, 1:26cv-499. This is the case in which independent U.S. Senate candidate Aaron Day was barred from the ballot because he hadn’t finished updating his voter registration address on the day he filed his Declaration of Candidacy. See this news story.

The state’s rationale for keeping someone off the ballot, explained in the article, has no relevance whatsoever to candidates for U.S. House, because a candidate for U.S. House need not live in the district in which he or she is running. And of course the state’s argument has no relevance for a statewide office either. The state’s rationale only applies to state legislative races, and this case has nothing to do with state legislative races.