Voter Laws Pose Risk to Obama in Republican-Led States
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The last Sunday before Election Day is the same every time for Jerry West. He closes his Jacksonville, Florida, music shop selling eight-track tapes and vinyl records, casts his ballot at an early voting site and drives 20 or so shut-ins to the polls.
“They tell me all the time if it wasn’t for me they couldn’t have voted,” West, 63, said of the elderly voters. “I don’t know what they’ll do now.”