Paula Werme v. Stephen Merrill, Governor of New Hampshire

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that “mere suspicion or paranoia is too flimsy a foundation on which to rest a claim of incipient fraud or mistake”
• upholding under rational-basis review a New Hampshire law that prevented a member of the Libertarian Party from serving as a ballot clerk on Election Day
• upholding under rational-basis review a New Hampshire law that prevented a member of the Libertarian Party from serving as a ballot clerk on Election Day
• finding definition of party constitutional in the context of selecting ballot clerks because it depends on the neutral criterion of success at the polls
• upholding under rational-basis review a New Hampshire law that prevented a member of the Libertarian Party from serving as a ballot clerk on Election Day
• upholding under rational basis review a New Hampshire law that prevented a member of the Libertarian Party from serving as a ballot clerk on Election Day

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