Election Law's statement of intent for the bill, provided the sole anecdotal allegation of vote buying. She asserted: I was told by a Goffstown resident that he knew for a fact that one of the major parties paid students from St[.] Anselm's $50 to vote in the 2012 election. I don't know whether that is true or not, but I do know that if I were going to pay someone to vote a particular way, I would want proof that they actually voted that way. No evidence supported this hearsay allegation. The district court correctly held that "[t]he summary judgment record does not include any evidence that either vote buying or voter coercion has occurred in New Hampshire since the late 1800s." Rideout, 123 F. Supp. 3d at 224. As of August 11, 2015, when the district court issued the summary judgment order on appeal here, the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office had undertaken investigations of four individuals for alleged violations of section 659:35, I, arising from their publication of "ballot selfies"2 after voting in the September 9, 2014 Republican primary election. 2 Three of those Amicus curiae Snapchat highlights the extent of the use of "ballot selfies," defined not strictly as "a photo where the photographer is also a subject," but rather as "all smartphone pictures shared online, including those here . . . [and] any picture that could violate the New Hampshire statute." As amici curiae New England First Amendment Coalition and the Keene Sentinel observe, "the term 'ballot selfie' has worked its way into the popular lexicon to describe just such a photograph." See, e.g., David Mikkelson, Ballot Selfies, Snopes (Feb. 8, 2016), http://www.snopes.com/dont-selfie-your-ballot. - 7 -

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