“The North Carolina law includes troubling new restrictions,
such as provisions that will significantly reduce early voting days; eliminate
same-day registration during early voting; impose a restrictive photo
identification requirement for in-person voting; and prohibit the counting of
otherwise legitimate provisional ballots that are mistakenly cast in the right
county, but in the wrong precinct. The Justice Department expects to show
that the clear and intended effects of these changes would contract the
electorate and result in unequal access to participation in the political
process on account of race.”
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American High Frontier First: 3-D Manufacturing in Space
“In addition to manufacturing spacecraft designs in orbit, 3-D printers also
could work with robotic systems to create tools and habitats needed for human
missions to Mars and other planetary destinations. Housing and laboratories
could be fabricated by robots using printed building blocks that take advantage
of in-situ resources, such as soil or minerals. Astronauts on long-duration
space missions also could print and recycle tools as they are needed, saving
mass, volume and resources.”
