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No. 25-1390October Term 2025Before Arguments

Docket 25-1390October Term 2025 (2025–2026)

Daniel Richard, Petitioner v. Kelly Ayotte, Governor of New Hampshire, et al.

from the Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

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What it's about

from the Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

Question presented

1. Whether the New Hampshire Supreme Court denied meaningful judicial review under the Elections Clause and Qualifications Clauses of the U.S. Constitution, in violation of Moore v. Harper, 600 U.S. 1 (2023), by declaring N.H. Const, pt. II, art. 32 “silent” on the method of ballot counting expressly required by that provision and by disregarding its own binding precedent in Fischer v. Governor, 145 N.H. 28 (2000). 2. Whether the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, as interpreted in Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000), and Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533 (1964), is violated when a state court dismisses as a non-justiciable “generalized grievance” a qualified voter’s claim that his in-person, hand-counted ballot—cast under strict constitutional verification standards, was commingled and tabulated with hundreds of thousands of absentee and machine-counted ballots processed under materially weaker verification and transparency standards.

Case path

Supreme Court of New Hampshire / Accepted by the Court

Area

Elections, Civil Rights

Timing

Expected by late June 2026, if argued this term

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Grounding

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Sep 1, 2026
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