These new voting laws are disturbing, but they should not be surprising.
Rather than singling out places, like Georgia, it would require every jurisdiction to apply to the federal government to change its voting laws.
Combined with the lack of a Republican candidate and new prohibitive voting laws, turnout was not surprisingly much less than the 1876 election.
Parliament removed the word "men" from an article of the voting law.
The 5-to-4 majority held that the size of a local government body could not be attacked under the voting law.
The lower court saw clearly the voting law's purpose to maximize minority participation in politics, but the justices cut back on that principle.
This provision is now obsolete, as there are uniform voting laws.
New absentee voting laws are in effect for the 2012 elections.
Because the voting laws prohibit exit polls, no basis exists for early computer forecasts.
"According to the voting laws, they're not supposed to do that."