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Today is Oklahoma's voter registration deadline for the state's June 16th primary.
Eligible voters in Oklahoma have only hours left to sign up online or in person or get their mail-in application postmarked.
If you are registering by mail, the U.S.
Postal Service recommends that you go to a post office and ask for a free manual postmark at the counter.
In Washington, D.C., eligible voters have until Tuesday to get in their mail-in application or to register online.
voters still have time to register in person during early voting and on the day of D.C.
If you've already registered to vote, you may want to go to your election official's website and check your status.
Eligible voters can sometimes be removed from lists, especially if they move, change their name, or haven't voted in a while.
Fewer than a dozen states have passed state voting rights acts.
Advocates of these laws have seen them as a bulwark against efforts that chip away at the Federal Voting Rights Act of 1965.
But last month, the Supreme Court limited federal protections against racial discrimination in redistricting.
and that has opened the door for the conservative Public Interest Legal Foundation to sue over the Illinois Voting Rights Act.
In places where racial minority voters and majority voters tend to prefer different candidates, Illinois' law requires state legislative districts to be drawn in a way that gives minority voters a chance to elect their preferred candidate.
But the right-wing legal group cites the Supreme Court's latest ruling to argue that the Illinois Voting Rights Act requires an improper use of race in redistricting.
Republican state officials in Alabama had lost a legal fight last year over the state's congressional map.
After finding that a proposed map by state lawmakers intentionally discriminated against black voters, a lower federal court ruled Alabama should keep using a court-drawn map to get in line with the Voting Rights Act.