board, since he's the guy who decides what the house votes on and what they don't. for all of their courtship, what they got was nothing. the bipartisan bill to shore up the voting rights act has been referred to committee and there it languishes. while that committee chairman seems to be in no hurry to do anything with it. and congressman cantor says he's continuing to have conversations about the bill. so with the old protections gone, today, two of the states that went ahead with new voting restrictions once the voting right acting was gone, two of those states sent people to the polls today under those new restrictions that they couldn't get away with before. in alabama, this maiden voyage occasioned a $1,000 bounty offered by the alabama republican party for tips leading to convictions of voter fraud and promised to have