229 “[gjovernment regulation of speech is content based if a law applies to particular speech because of the-topic discussed or the idea or message expressed.” 135 S.Ct. at 2227. A law that distinguishes between permitted and prohibited speech based on the subject matter, function, or purpose of the speech is content •based on its face. Id. Additionally, even a faeially-neutral law will be deemed to be content, based- if it either cannot be justified without reference to the content of the speech or discriminates based on the speaker’s point of view. Id. A law that is content based on its face will be subject to strict scrutiny even though it does not favor one viewpoint over another and regardless of whether the legislature acted with benign motivations when it adopted the law. See id. at 2229-30. As ■the Reed court explained, “[i]nnocent motives do not eliminate the danger of censorship presented by a facially content-based statute, as future government officials may one day wield such statutes to suppress disfavored speech.” Id. at 2229; see also Turner Broad. Syst., Inc. v. FCC, 512 U.S. 622, 642-43, 114 S.Ct. 2445, 129 L.Ed.2d 497 (1994) (“Nor will the mere assertion of a content-neutral purpose be enough to save a law which, on its face, discriminates based on content.”). In Reed, the Court applied these principles to invalidate a sign code that governed the manner in which people could display outdoor signs in Gilbert, Arizona. Reed, 135 S.Ct. at 2226. The sign code generally prohibited the display of outdoor signs anywhere within the town without a permit. It exempted twenty-three categories of signs from that requirement, but placed various lesser requirements on each of those twenty-three categories. For example, a political sign could be larger than a temporary directional sign and could be displayed for a longer amount of time. The Court held that the sign code was content based on its face because it treated each sign category differently dependent upon the type of content conveyed. Id. at 2227. Because the sign code was facially content based, the Court subjected it to strict scrutiny without attempting to identify the legislature’s purpose or justification!' Id. In the present case, as in Reed, the law under review is content based on its face because it restricts speech on the basis of its subject matter. The only digital or photographic images that are barred by RSA 659:35, I are images of marked ballots that are intended to disclose how a voter has voted. Images of unmarked ballots and facsimile ballots may be shared with others without restriction. In fact, the law does not restrict any person from sharing any other kinds of images with anyone. In short, the law is plainly a content-based restriction on speech because it requires regulators to examine the content of the speech to determine whether it includes impermissible subject matter. Accordingly, like the sign code at issue in Reed, the law under review here is subject to strict scrutiny even though it does not discriminate based on viewpoint and regardless of whether the legislature acted with good intentions when it adopted the law. The Secretary nevertheless contends that the new law should be exempt from strict scrutiny even if it is a content-based restriction on speech because it is only a partial ban on speech about how a voter has voted. In other words, because the new law leaves voters free to use other means to inform others about how they have voted, the Secretary argues that the law is merely a time, place, or manner restriction on speech that is subject only to intermediate scrutiny. This argument is a nonstarter. As the Supreme Court explained in United States v. Playboy Enter-