The Supreme Court's potentially explosive voting rights case

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With the current Supreme Court term nearly at an end, just one potentially blockbuster decision remains, and it could be a doozy. That's because the case deals with voting rights, and voting rights may be the most incendiary issue confronting the country right now.

Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee deals with two issues: First, does Arizona's out-of precinct policy, which discards ballots cast outside of the voter's designated precinct, violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA); second, does Arizona's ballot-collection law, which forbids anyone other than the voter him- or herself from handling a completed early ballot, violate the same section of the VRA or the 15th Amendment.

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Damon Linker

Damon Linker is a senior correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is also a former contributing editor at The New Republic and the author of The Theocons and The Religious Test.