Law / United States / 
New Hampshire
Synthetic Media and Deceptive and Fraudulent Deepfakes in Elections
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In force since 1 August 2024.
An AI transparency rule binding private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not distribute a deepfake of a candidate, election official, or party on the ballot within 90 days of an election, unless you disclose that the media was manipulated or generated by artificial intelligence.
- Use the exact disclosure wording the statute prescribes, sized or paced so an average viewer or listener will notice it.
- A targeted candidate or election official may sue for damages; this does not apply to an interactive computer service host, a recipient with no reason to know the material was a deepfake, qualifying news coverage, or paid political ads that keep their sponsor's disclaimer.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureNo
Private right of actionYes
What it reaches
How the hook was established
express
What makes it apply
Place of effect
What it makes you log
Logging duty
RSA 664:14-c requires a disclosure on a covered election communication that includes synthetic media; it creates no duty to keep any log, record or other documentation, and names nobody who may check one.
- Kind
- None
- As of
- 21 September 2026
Who checks it
Audit expectation
none
What this law does
Drafted with AI from the cited sources under the direction of UnGovr staff. UnGovr holds editorial responsibility for this page.
Within 90 days of an election, a person, corporation, committee, or other entity may not distribute a message it knows or should have known is an AI-generated or generative-AI deepfake of a candidate, election official, or party on the ballot, unless the media carries a prescribed disclosure stating that it was manipulated or generated by artificial intelligence and depicts speech or conduct that did not occur, sized or paced so an average viewer or listener will notice it.
A targeted candidate or election official may sue for damages; the prohibition does not reach an interactive computer service host, a person with no reason to know the material was a deepfake, qualifying news coverage, paid political communications that keep their sponsor's disclaimer, or satire or parody not reliant on artificial intelligence.
When LexLint raises it
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Read the law
official text of RSA 664:14-c, New Hampshire Revised Statutes Annotated (gencourt.state.nh.us)
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