Early voting had been scheduled to begin Saturday in advance of the May 16 primary. BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana suspended its congressional primaries Thursday as early voting was about to get underway while pressure mounted on Republican officials in other states to also redraw their U.S. House maps in light of a Supreme Court ruling that significantly weakened the Voting Rights Act. Early voting had been scheduled to begin Saturday for Louisiana’s May 16 primaries. But Republican Gov.