Supreme Court: States and Voting

supreme court: Citing a need to combat fraud, Republican-controlled legislatures are tightening voter laws by limiting early voting and same-day registration, by requiring IDs at polling places, and more, according to Metro News. In 2013, declaring "our country has changed," the Supreme Court invalidated a key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which required mostly Southern states with a history of discrimination to get advance federal approval to change election laws. Voting rights are in flux in the final months of Barack Obama two terms as the first black president. The court decision made it easier for states to impose new restrictions. Among them: the more contested states of Arizona, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin. This year, 14 states have restrictions involving voter ID or other requirements for the first time in a presidential election. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.