New Hampshire’s new voter ID law must still be precleared by the DOJ.  In this report, Garry Rayno of the Union Leader says: “Nobody believes the DOJ will simply approve the new law. The department has already found several state photo identification laws in violation of the Voting Rights Act.”

Count me as “nobody.”  The New Hampshire law differs in significant ways from the laws in South Carolina and Texas that have drawn preclearance objections, and those differences matter.