States promise quick action on election laws

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

ATLANTA (AP) — Across the South, Republicans are working to take advantage of a new political landscape after a divided U.S. Supreme Court freed all or part of 15 states, many of them in the old Confederacy, from having to ask Washington's permission before changing election procedures in jurisdictions with histories of discrimination.

After the high court announced its momentous ruling Tuesday, officials in Texas and Mississippi pledged to immediately implement laws requiring voters to show photo identification before getting a ballot. North Carolina Republicans promised they would quickly try to adopt a similar law. Florida now appears free to set its early voting hours however Gov. Rick Scott and the GOP Legislature please. And Georgia's most populous county likely will use county commission districts that Republican state legislators drew over the objections of local Democrats.

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Florida now appears free to set its early voting hours however Gov. Rick Scott and the GOP Legislature please.

http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20130626/US--Voting.Rights-The.South/

That issue is closed now. They undid the changes that led to the 2012 election debacle last month. People here would not stand for it if they reverted back to the same standard that made Florida look bad last November. Not gonna happen.

Rick Scott Signs Law Restoring Florida's Early Voting, Limiting Ballot Length, Expanding Polling Places