Democrats strike back at GOP voting measures

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FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2012 file photo, Madeline Nicole Kreyger, from Santa Barbara, Calif., casts her vote at a polling station on the campus of the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colo. As a divisive legislative session ended this month, Colorado Democrats muscled through the Statehouse a massive elections reform bill that allows voters to register up until Election Day and still cast their ballots. It's the latest _ and most substantial _ development in a nationwide Democratic Party effort to strike back at two years of Republican success in passing measures to require identification at polling places and purge rolls of suspect voters. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

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Democrats strike... FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2012 file photo, Madeline Nicole Kreyger, from Santa Barbara, Calif., casts her vote at a polling station on the campus of the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colo. As a divisive legislative session ended this month, Colorado Democrats muscled through the Statehouse a massive elections reform bill that allows voters to register up until Election Day and still cast their ballots. It's the latest _ and most substantial _ development in a nationwide Democratic Party effort to strike back at two years of Republican success in passing measures to require identification at polling places and purge rolls of suspect voters. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)
Senators require... U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch addresses the Utah Republican Party's annual organizing convention Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Sandy, Utah. Hatch says staffers at the Internal Revenue Service, which recently apologized for unfairly targeting tea party groups, "are either deliberately incompetent or they are evil." Hatch mentioned the IRS scandal while addressing thousands of fellow Republicans in Sandy on Saturday for the state party's annual organizing convention. Hatch says the IRS scandal is more concerning than almost anything else he's seen in the 36 years he's been in the U.S. Senate. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Myanmar leader m... FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2011 file photo, President Barack Obama, left, stands next to Myanmar President Thein Sein during a group photo session at the East Asia Summit in Nusa Dua, on the island of Bali, Indonesia. Thein Sein’s historic White House visit next week is the culmination of U.S. outreach to a former pariah regime. That’s been based on a principle of taking “action for action” by deepening ties in response to democratic reforms. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
Military sex abu... FILE - In this July 18, 2012 file photo, Ruth Moore of Milbridge, Maine, who was raped twice while serving in the Navy, testifies before the Veterans Affairs subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs on Capitol Hill in Washington. More than 85,000 veterans were treated last year for mental health and substance abuse problems connected to military sexual trauma and another 4,000 sought disability compensation, underscoring the staggering, long-term impact of this emerging crisis. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
Column: Dustups ... President Barack Obama walks off of Marine One on the South Lawn after returning to the White House in Washington, Sunday, May 19, 2013. Obama delivered the commencement address at Morehouse College earlier in the day in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Money tangle: Th... In this Sunday, May 19, 2013, photo provided by CBS News White House senior advisor Dan Pfeiffer appears on CBS's "Face the Nation" in Washington. Pfeiffer was scheduled to appear on five Sunday news shows Sunday, where he stated no senior officials were involved in the decision to give tea party groups extra scrutiny by the IRS. (AP Photo/CBS, Chris Usher)
Kerry to Mideast... FILE – In this April 21, 2013 file photo U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at a news conference in Istanbul, Turkey. Monday, May 20, 2013, Kerry heads back to the Mideast to press the case for peace talks between Syrian rebels and President Bashar Assad's regime amid increasing signs the new U.S. strategy to halt the war is being undermined by Russia. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)
AP CEO calls rec... In this Sunday, May 19, 2013, photo provided by CBS News, Gary Pruitt, the President and CEO of the Associated Press, discusses the leak investigation that led to his reporters' phone records being subpoenaed by the Justice Department on CBS's "Face the Nation" in Washington. Pruitt says DoJ's seizure of AP journalists' phone records was "unconstitutional", and that the secret subpoena of reporters' phone records has made sources less willing to talk to AP journalists. (AP Photo/CBS, Chris Usher)
GOP ponders how ... President Barack Obama speaks during a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) event at the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, Sunday, May 19, 2013, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Obama exhorts go... President Barack Obama receives an honorary degree from Robert Davidson, Chair of the Board of Trustees, partially visible, during the Morehouse College 129th Commencement ceremony, Sunday, May 19, 2013, in Atlanta. Morehouse is the historically black, all-male institution that counts Martin Luther King Jr. among its alumni. It is Obama's second graduation speech of the year. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Tea party looks ... FILE – In this May 16, 2013 file photo Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., chair of the Tea Party Caucus, center, speaks during a news conference with Tea Party leaders about the IRS targeting Tea Party groups on Capitol Hill in Washington. Shouts of vindication from around the country suggest tea party movement's leaders think it is getting its groove back. They say the IRS acknowledgement that it had targeted their groups for extra scrutiny is helping pump new energy into the coalition. (AP Photo/Molly Riley, File)
Obama urged to m... FILE - In this Aug. 11, 2009, file photo Senior White House Adviser David Axelrod, left, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, right, leave with President Barack Obama, not shown, from the White House in Washington. Obama allies and former top aides are worried he has lost his voice on his central theme of economic opportunity, silenced by a trio of recent troubles. Axelrod and Gibbs are pressing Obama's current aides to let the president stake out a big vision once again, not only to put a focus on his second term but to move away from the controversies engulfing the White House. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)
What do we eat? ... In this photo taken April 3, 2013, nutrition scholar Prof. Barry Popkin, head of the University of North Carolina Food Research Program, points to an ingredient label while discussing his study, what foods Americans are purchasing in stores and eating, in his office at UNC-Chapel Hill. Popkin is leading a massive project of researchers who are creating a gargantuan map, something he calls "mapping the food genome." "We're interested in improving the public's health and it really takes this kind of knowledge," he says. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
White House insi... In this Sunday, May 19, 2013, photo provided by CBS News White House senior advisor Dan Pfeiffer speaks on CBS's "Face the Nation" in Washington. Pfeiffer was scheduled to appear on five Sunday news shows Sunday, where he stated no senior officials were involved in the decision to give tea party groups extra scrutiny by the IRS. (AP Photo/CBS, Chris Usher)
Money tangle: Th... Ousted IRS chief Steven Miller is sworn in on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Friday, May 17, 2013, prior to testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the extra scrutiny the IRS gave Tea Party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
A look at why th... FILE – In this Jan.23, 2013, file photo U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham pounds her fist as she testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the deadly September attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. Republicans and Democrats began condemning each other's response to Benghazi within hours of the first shots fired. The issue has flared and dimmed ever since, revived by new testimony, reports or documents like newly released emails. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
Dems' Senate cam... FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2012 file photo, Rep. John Barrow, D-Ga., stands with supporters as he waits to do a television interview at an election-night party in Augusta, Ga. Barrow and former Rep. Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin in South Dakota, two top-tier Democratic prospects, recently bypassed running for Senate seats in Georgia and South Dakota, decisions that highlighted both divisions within the party and its challenge of finding candidates whose ideologies line up with voters in Republican-leaning states. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)
First lady to hi... First lady Michelle Obama hugs Jenika Headley-Greene as Obama hands out diplomas during the graduation ceremony for Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Magnet High School, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
Obama takes Cabi... FILE – In this March 4, 2013 file photo President Barack Obama talks to media at the start of a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington. With Obama, from left are Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Obama, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. Saturday, May 18, 2013, Obama took Sebelius and LaHood to Andrews Air Force Base for round of golf, in the rain. LaHood is running the Transportation Department until the Senate confirms Obama's choice of Charlotte, N.C., Mayor Anthony Foxx as successor. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
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