Opinion ID: 2744274
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Heading: Identification of Members

Text: The Secretary of State challenges the ability of any members to sue, arguing that Citizen Center failed to identify a single member who was harmed. Sec’y of State’s Br. at 20. The district court did not address this challenge. Nonetheless, we can affirm the dismissal on any ground supported by the record. See Ridge at Red Hawk, L.L.C. v. Schneider, 493 F.3d 1174, 1178 n.4 (10th Cir. 2007). Thus, we will address the Secretary of State’s challenge involving identification of the Citizen Center members. For purposes of argument, we can assume that Citizen Center bore an obligation to identify at least some of the members who were harmed. See Summers v. Earth Island Inst., 555 U.S. 488, 498 (2009). Even with this assumption, we would conclude that Citizen Center has satisfied its obligation by identifying members being harmed. In addressing this issue, we can review the entire record to assess Citizen Center’s standing. See N.H. Right to Life Political Action Comm. v. Gardner, 99 F.3d 8, 16 (1st Cir. 1996). In the record on appeal, Citizen Center presented affidavits identifying eleven individuals harmed by the use of traceable ballots. R. vol. 2, at 250-57; R. vol. 3, at 394-415. And these affidavits were in the district court’s record at the time of the ruling 16 on the motion to dismiss. Thus, we conclude that Citizen Center has sufficiently identified its individual members for purposes of standing. Because the affected members are sufficiently identified, we address whether Citizen Center has adequately alleged the constitutional elements of standing: injury in fact, causation, and redressability.