A New Hampshire judge blocked a controversial voter registration law in the state for the 2018 elections, in a preliminary Monday ruling that said that the burdens imposed by the law were “unreasonable and discriminatory.”

The law, passed by the Republican-controlled legislature in 2017, expanded the state’s domicile requirements and overhauled the language on the voter registration form in a way that Judge Kenneth Browne said was “inherently confusing or misleading.” The judge ruled that those challenging the law were likely to succeed on the merits to prove the new rules violated the state’s constitutional right to vote......

Judge Brown also brought up how extremely rare voter fraud is. He noted that in the very few instances of voter fraud convictions in the state in recent years, none had to do with abuse of the less complicated affidavit that voters had to sign attesting to they had domicile in the state before this new law went into effect.

“Given the extraordinarily low rate of documented voter fraud in this state, it is far more likely that legitimate voters will be dissuaded from voting than illegitimate voters will be prevented,” he said.

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Mon Oct 22, 2018, 05:06 PM

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