The Supreme Court on Thursday let New Hampshire bar voters from using student ID cards to prove their identity in the Nov. 3 midterms, pausing a federal judge's order that had allowed election officials to consider the cards as backup evidence. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson publicly dissented.

Texas has a record 19,041,684 registered voters for the Nov. 3 election, Secretary of State Robert Howden announced, with early voting starting Monday, Oct. 19. The record follows a backlog of at least 178,000 registration applications that never reached counties because of a DPS database error, now cleared. Here are the early voting dates, ID rules and what lawmakers say about the backlog.