The New Hampshire General Court adjourned its 2026 regular session on June 4 after passing 25 election-related bills. Gov. Kelly Ayotte (R) signed all 25 bills between March and July.

Among those bills was HB 323, which removes student identification cards from the list of acceptable forms of identification for voting purposes.

HB 323 passed the state House 190-148 on Jan. 7, with 186 Republicans and four Democrats voting in favor and 148 Democrats voting in opposition. The bill passed the state Senate 16-8 on March 5, with 16 Republicans voting in favor and eight Democrats voting against. Ayotte signed the bill on April 3.

Ayotte also signed HB 481, which moved the state primary election to the second Tuesday in June of every even-numbered year. It was previously held in September.

The final version of the bill passed the state Senate by voice vote on Jan. 7 and was concurred in by the state House by voice vote on April 9. Ayotte signed the bill on May 8. The bill takes effect on Jan. 1, 2028.

Other election bills enacted in 2026 include:

• HB 158, which requires the secretary of state to review absentee ballot data after each general election and identify absentee ballot requests that should be forwarded to the state Department of Justice’s election law unit for an investigative review.
• HB 340, which expands the definition of electioneering to include conducting surveys that are expressly or primarily political.
• HB 365, which requires that, if a person does not have documentary proof of citizenship, a clerk must attempt to confirm the person’s citizenship through the office of the secretary of state. If the secretary of state's office confirms a person is a U.S. citizen via a database check, the proof of citizenship requirement is considered satisfied.
• HB 1031, which authorizes campaign funds to be used to pay for the reasonable costs of security measures for a state candidate, state officeholder, member of their family, and employees of the candidate's campaign or the state officeholder's office.
• HB 1062, which allows the secretary of state to audit the citizenship qualifications of registered voters who submitted a qualified voter affidavit as proof of citizenship.
• HB 1381, which extends the deadline for the chairperson of a party committee to designate a person to fill a candidate vacancy.
• SB 103, which requires a town or city to have a minimum of one polling place for every 15,000 registered voters for a general election in a presidential year, unless certain conditions are met.
• SB 438, which requires the secretary of state to work with local election officials to ensure polling locations have direct or indirect access on Election Day to the statewide centralized voter registration database.
• SB 534, which extends the state’s prohibition on foreign national campaign contributions to city, town, village, and school board elections. It also requires individuals or political committees who violate the prohibition to pay the secretary of state the amount of the prohibited contribution or expenditure, plus interest accrued from the date of the contribution or expenditure.

New Hampshire enacted 18 election-related bills in 2025, 11 in 2024, and three in 2023.