(prohibiting voter coercion or intimidation); id. § 10307(c) (prohibiting "pay[ing] or offer[ing] to pay or accept[ing] payment either for registration to vote or for voting" in some federal elections); N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 659:40, I (prohibiting voterelated bribery); id. § 659:40, II (prohibiting voter coercion or intimidation); id. § 659:37 (prohibiting interfering with voters). New Hampshire suggests that it has no criminal statute preventing a voter from selling votes. That can be easily remedied without the far reach of this statute. the buying or selling The State may outlaw coercion or of votes district court without the need for this are less prohibition.8 As the observed, there restrictive alternatives available: [T]he state has an obviously less restrictive way to address any concern that images of completed ballots will be used to facilitate vote buying and voter coercion: it can simply make it unlawful to use an image of a completed ballot in connection with vote buying and voter coercion schemes. Rideout, 123 F. Supp. 3d at 235; see also McCullen, 134 S. Ct. at 2539 ("[T]he Commonwealth has available to it a variety of approaches that appear capable of serving its interests, without excluding individuals from areas historically open for speech and debate."). Indeed, as to narrow tailoring, the plaintiffs point 8 Of course, another solution to New Hampshire's dilemma of not having a statute that criminalizes vote selling would be to enact such a statute. - 19 -

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