Ashley Lopez

Louisiana's Republican Secretary of State Nancy Landry announced that most of Louisiana's primaries, including a closely watched Senate primary, will proceed as scheduled, but not the House seats.

Early voting in the state starts on Saturday and voting ends on May 16 for the state's primaries.

Absentee voting has already been underway.

Republican Governor Jeff Landry said the state is sending notices to early voting sites to warn voters that even though U.S.

House races will appear on their ballots, those votes will not be counted.

It is unclear when Louisiana will hold elections for seats in the U.S.

House of Representatives.

Ashley Lopez, NPR News.

It's certainly a major escalation in U.S.

pressure on Mexico.

The new proposed map could position Democrats to win 10 out of the state's 11 congressional seats.

Right now, the maps are drawn to favor Democrats in about six of the 11 seats.

So a four-seat boost could play a pretty big role in Democrats' efforts to retake the U.S.

House this fall because Republicans currently only have an edge that's about a couple seats.

Good morning.

Yeah.

So it basically allows lawmakers to circumvent the state's redistricting commission.

Virginia is one of those states that takes the process of drawing political lines partly out of the hands of politicians.

But because of this ongoing redistricting battle across the country, Democrats really wanted to skirt that commission so that they could drop some new seats that could favor their party in the fall.

But they needed voters permission first and they got it.