New Hampshire State Trial Court Upholds New Restrictions on Postal Ballots

Posted on by December 13, 2025
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On December 11, a New Hampshire state trial court upheld the new requirements for voters who use postal absentee ballots. The new law requires that the completed ballot must be notarized, or it must include a photocopy of the voter’s state ID, such as a drivers license. If neither of those is feasible, the voter may take the ballot to the town clerk and show ID.

The plaintiffs are visually impaired. They cannot easily do any of the three alternatives contained in the law. Here is the decision. An appeal is likely. Robertson v Scanlan, Rockingham Superior Court, 218-2025cv-951.

Some Pennsylvania Independent Voters File Lawsuit to Overturn Closed Primaries

Posted on by December 12, 2025
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On December 10, some independent voters in Pennsylvania filed a new lawsuit against closed primaries. They earlier filed a case in State Supreme Court but that Court refused to hear it. Therefore, they are starting over in a lower court, the Commonwealth Court. Smerconish v Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Here is the Complaint.

Arizona Bill to Move Non-Presidential Primary from August to July

Posted on by December 12, 2025
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Arizona representative Alex Kolodin has introduced HB 2022. It moves the non-presidential primaries from the last Tuesday in August to the last Tuesday in July.

Arizona ties the petition deadline for new parties to the date of the primaries, so if this bill passes, the deadline for a new party moves from November of the year before the election, to October of the year before the election. The existing deadline is ludicrous, and this bill would make it even more absurd.

New Maine Registration Data

Posted on by December 11, 2025
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On December 10, the Maine Secretary of State released new registration data. Maine doesn’t tally registrations very often. This was the first tally since the February 8, 2025 tally.

New percentages: Democratic 33.94%; Republican 29.73%; Green 3.60%; Libertarian .66%; independent and other 32.08%.

In February 2025, the percentages had been: Democratic 34.27%; Republican 29.87%; Green 3.62%; No Labels 1.65%; Libertarian .59%; independent and other 30.00%. Since the February tally, No Labels removed itself from the ballot and all its registrants were converted to independents.