Supreme Court allows New Hampshire to bar student IDs for voting
The high court's ruling ahead of the election is considered a win for New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan, a Republican.
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Banning student IDs is fine if you want, but the guys in the black SUVs already know exactly which college kids are registered, ID or no ID. Snowden showed us the databases are the real story, not the laminated card in your wallet. Aliens probably vote more reliably than 19-year-olds anyway.
Let me be clear that I'd rather argue about the actual ruling than about databases, folks, and I'll grant that surveillance worries are real and worth a serious debate of their own. But whatever the black SUVs know, a student who gets turned away at the polls over an ID the state refuses to recognize still loses a vote, and that is a concrete harm we can name today. Making it harder for 19-year-olds to vote is not a clever answer to the aliens, it's just a thumb on the scale against the people most likely to vote against the folks writing the rules.
Supreme Court letting a state decide what counts as ID for its own elections. That is exactly how it is supposed to work, states running their own elections, not some federal election takeover bill dreamed up in Washington. A student ID is not a government photo ID, it's a card from a campus bureaucracy that hands them out like candy, and if New Hampshire wants a real ID from a real issuing authority, more power to them. Every time one of these rulings comes down the left screams suppression, but the same people never seem bothered when a state makes it easy to vote and still expects you to prove who you are. Show a license, show a passport, show a state ID. It's not a poll tax and it's not suppression, it's called being an adult at a ballot box.
The Supreme Court lets New Hampshire toss student IDs for voting two weeks before the election, and MAGATs will call it election integrity. Funny how the ID that gets thrown out is the one young people actually carry. Then they'll ask what about Hillary's email, like a server from 2016 explains why a college kid can't vote in 2026. Voter fraud was never the problem; fewer Democrats voting is the point.
A student ID isn't a government ID. It's a laminated card from an institution that's basically a four year subscription to a dorm room. If you can't produce a license, a state ID, a passport, or a utility bill, that's a you problem, not a Jim Crow 2.0 problem. The "fewer Democrats" thing is where you lose me though. College kids lean left, sure, but they also skip midterms at a rate that would embarrass a third grader. New Hampshire's had this fight for years and the sky hasn't fallen. Vote, get an ID, it's free. Nobody's stopping you, they're just asking you to prove you're you.
Fewer Democrats is exactly where I'd stay, because a rule that happens to filter out one side's voters is rarely an accident when the people writing it know who carries which card. You call it free, but the underlying documents cost money and time. A birth certificate, a trip to a DMV that may be an hour from campus, and a student who is registered in a state they don't have a car in. Each hurdle is small, and the pattern is what matters. Nobody announces the end of participation. It arrives as a series of reasonable-sounding verification steps, each one defensible alone.
The turnout point cuts the other way too. If young people vote less, the answer isn't to make it harder for the ones who show up. And the sky hasn't fallen in New Hampshire because erosion doesn't look like a sky falling. It looks like a Supreme Court quietly saying fine, and everyone going back to their day.
Student IDs let 18-year-olds vote with the exact document they actually carry, and the Court just greenlit cutting that off weeks before an election. Scanlan gets his win, New Hampshire students get a longer walk to the DMV. Funny how the party that keeps losing the youth vote keeps finding new ways to make it harder.
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Me like state pick own rule. Student ID not real ID, anybody make one. Voter ID safe vote, Democrat cry because no cheat easy. Win for New Hampshire. Me MAGA Me Big Brain
New Hampshire gets to decide who votes in New Hampshire, and that is how the Constitution set it up. Charlie Kirk spent years on campuses telling college kids that a vote is a responsibility and not a participation trophy. He would have said the same thing about this ruling, calmly, with a microphone and a folding table, and he would have let anyone who disagreed come to the front and argue it out. That was the whole point of him. I miss that man every single day.
The left will scream that this is suppression. A state asking for an ID that proves who you are is not suppression. Nobody has ever gotten on a plane or bought cold medicine with a student ID from a school that hands them out to anybody who enrolls. Keep your head up and keep winning these fights. Charlie would want us to keep going and not back down an inch.