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"A court battle with major implications for voting in New Hampshire continues as the House speaker and attorney general fight over implementation of the state's voter ID law.The state\u2019s new voter ID law mandated that college students who come to live in New Hampshire from out of state should register a vehicle and get a driver's license if they want to cast a ballot. But a Strafford County superior court judge tossed out that part of the law, ruling it too restrictive of voting rights.On Friday, the House leadership filed an emergency motion to reconsider, saying, \u201CThe court erred by not construing SB 318 to expand the definition of residency.\u201DHouse Speaker Bill O\u2019Brien is accusing Attorney General Michael Delaney of not adequately defending the law in court, while the AG said he won't let the speaker's politics dictate the state's legal position.\u201CIt\u2019s unfortunate that he\u2019s standing, that the Department of Justice is standing in opposition to the people of New Hampshire, who fully understand that our elections should be limited to New Hampshire residents,\u201D O\u2019Brien said.In a statement released Friday evening, Delaney said, \u201CWe defend the laws as passed by the entire legislative body. My office is only able to defend the law that the legislature actually passed, not the law that the speaker wishes had been passed. The law that the legislature passed did not, in any way, modify the definition of residency in New Hampshire.\"The speaker also filed to intervene in the superior court case to present his arguments for the new law, but Delaney said, \u201CThe Supreme Court has already made clear this session that the attorney general represents the state in court. I will not allow politics to dictate the state's legal positions.\"\u201CWe certainly wish the state Department of Justice were as vigorous in its language (in) defending the law as it chooses in being partisan and political,\u201D O\u2019Brien said.The House speaker said it it is feasible that the full law will be in effect on Election Day, although he sees it as an uphill battle with the short time frame before the election."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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