In addition, the election is being held in violation of the Principle Chiefs Act, which requires a Cherokee leadership to submit its votingrequirements to the Department of Interior.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology, a part of the Commerce Department, is beginning the process of defining accuracy and security requirements for electronic voting equipment.
Those who want the Supreme Court to overturn the Voting Rights Act's pre-clearance requirements can point to these surveys to show that the racial gap in voting has dramatically diminished, and has arguably disappeared.
Mr. TIM VERCELLOTTI (Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University): In this way, as the requirements for identification became more stringent, the probability of voting declined.