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Winds.

Still expected category two hurricane and still 35 miles west of cancun.

Moving well inland at this poink over water later today and tomorrow and that's going to cause that strengthening once again.

So it is expected to become a category three hurricane again and it could become a category four hurricane, in fact, by later tomorrow before make landfall sometime on friday as potentially a major hurricane.

From there it moves inland and cause major rain into mississippi and tennessee.

Back here at home today we are in for a dry day.

Clear and dry.

Mid-60s now and rising into mid-80s this afternoon.

Let you know when we can get some of the rain from delta.

That's coming up.

>> leah: thanks, emily.

For people in south carolina our time is up to register to vote and from rest of the country.

>> jon: do you need witness signature or not need it on the absentee ballot.

Brooke schwieters, what did you find out?

>> brooke: map identifying 15 of the 50 states with voter registration deadlines already passed.

Of the 15 south carolina had the earliest, 30 days before election day.

Now a federal hearing to extend the palmetto state's dead line has been canceled.

And if you're voting absentee the requirement for a witness signature has been reinstated once again.

I spoke with susan dunn legal director for the aclu of south carolina and she says the signature doesn't actually protect against voter fraud.

Big concern she has with all of this back and forth, some votes could simply not count.

>> doesn't benefit the state to have a tech tall thing so somebody's vote could be thrown away because of a mistake.

That doesn't encourage voting.

Every thrown away vote is a loss.

In south carolina when you're -- if your absentee ballot doesn't get counseled you don't even gen get told.

>> brooke: they would like a registration deadline but with so many people voting absentee the elections commission will& need time to properly count all of these votes.

I did take several questions to the south carolina commission and ask them how they are telling voters about the new signature requirement.

After all this back and forth i ask will invalid ballots be thrown away from voters and will they be told of that and also is there a concern about the state's early registration date?

I still have not gotten a response.

Reporting from the newsroom brooke schwieters fox 24 news.

>> leah: brooke, thanks.

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