{"id":5626,"date":"2011-10-03T16:54:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T20:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=5626"},"modified":"2011-10-03T16:56:54","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T20:56:54","slug":"voter-suppression-satire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/10\/03\/voter-suppression-satire\/","title":{"rendered":"Pressing The Press On Voter Suppression (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Benen has written an excellent post about the underreported <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/political-animal\/2011_10\/quantifying_the_war_on_voting032580.php\">voter suppression<\/a> scandal:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Under the auspices of rooting out \u201cvoter fraud\u201d \u2014 a problem that appears to exist largely in the over-active imaginations of GOP activists \u2014 Republicans are passing voter-ID measures, closing windows for early voting, and approving new laws restricting voter-registration drives, all targeting specific kinds of voters who happen to be traditional Democratic supporters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the Brennan Center For Justice has produced a frightening study of these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brennancenter.org\/content\/resource\/voting_law_changes_in_2012\">&#8220;radical&#8221; voting law changes.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Now if only the media would take some time out from its hefty will-he-or-won&#8217;t-he Christie coverage, to report on this important issue.<\/p>\n<p>Pressing The Press On Voter Suppression (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>The GOP war on our voting<br \/>\nIs a problem the press isn&#8217;t noting.<br \/>\nUnfair laws will suppress<br \/>\nDem votes with finesse,<br \/>\nThe Republican prospects promoting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Benen has written an excellent post about the underreported voter suppression scandal: Under the auspices of rooting out \u201cvoter fraud\u201d \u2014 a problem that appears to exist largely in the over-active imaginations of GOP activists \u2014 Republicans are passing voter-ID measures, closing windows for early voting, and approving new laws restricting voter-registration drives, all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,21,20,11,26,154,6,7,3,9,610],"tags":[1681,194,2763,476,275,702,834,616,1679,1246,1680],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5626"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5626"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5634,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5626\/revisions\/5634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}