A.P. offers this report, which begins: “Unfair tactics and confusing rules still make it tough for many minorities to cast election ballots, and the barriers are so common that the federal safeguards for voters must be renewed, a detailed new report from a civil rights group says. ‘Protecting Minority Voters: The Voting Rights Act, 1982-2005’ pulls together research and testimony from voters around the country to urge lawmakers to renew the parts of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that will expire in August 2007.” The report should be posted here later today.