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to make in its election laws, whether it s moving a polling place across the street, changing the number of county commissioners, cutting back on early voting or requiring voter i.d.s. if any of the states largely in the south or any of these others that have a history of discrimination want to make any changes, they have to get permission from the federal government. the states say they shouldn t have do that anymore. so states will be able to do whatever they want. reporter: well, now, part of the voting rights act if the court were to strike this down, we don t know what s going to happen, but that s a pretty good guess. if the court were to strike that part of the law down, it would leave another part of the law standing which says you can t do anything that has the purpose or effect of discriminating against minority voters, making it harder for them to vote, making it harder for them to elect the candidates of their choice. you could still sue the individual states, but the p

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