| A divided Supreme Court rejected an emergency appeal by North Carolina seeking to revive stricter state voting rules, which reduced the number of days for early voting and required photo identification at the polls. The high court, in a brief written order, declined to stay an appeals-court ruling from July that struck down North Carolina's Republican-backed voting rules. The appeals court found state lawmakers enacted the rules with the intent to discriminate against black voters. North Carolina's bid to restore the rules for Election Day split the Supreme Court's current eight justices along ideological lines, with four liberal justices rejecting the request and four conservative justices supporting the state. See More Coverage » | 
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