{"id":12191,"date":"2012-08-29T14:35:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T19:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=12191"},"modified":"2012-08-29T14:35:15","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T19:35:15","slug":"court-rejects-florida-gop-voter-registration-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/08\/29\/court-rejects-florida-gop-voter-registration-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Court rejects Florida GOP voter-registration restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Maddow has blogged about <a title=\"Rachel Maddow blog story\" href=\"http:\/\/maddowblog.msnbc.com\/_news\/2012\/08\/29\/13550934-court-rejects-florida-gop-voter-registration-restrictions\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Court rejects Florida GOP voter-registration restrictions<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Republican efforts to restrict voting rights come in a variety of forms. Some of the most notable efforts involve onerous voter-ID laws and closing early-voting windows.<\/p>\n<p>But in Florida, GOP officials have also placed sweeping restrictions on voter-registration drives. As Laura explained overnight, new Republican-imposed rules have made it almost impossible for progressive groups to register new Democratic voters. This isn&#8217;t an accident.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/maddowblog.msnbc.com\/_news\/2012\/08\/29\/13550934-court-rejects-florida-gop-voter-registration-restrictions\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"How Florida has changed the mix of voter refistrations\" src=\"http:\/\/m.static.newsvine.com\/servista\/imagesizer?file=steve-benenEA7879D1-CE96-1752-12FD-E5E9FAADABB9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"90%\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>I hate to think that this election is already moot because the Republicans have already suppressed enough Democratic voters to cause President Obama to lose this election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Maddow has blogged about Court rejects Florida GOP voter-registration restrictions. Republican efforts to restrict voting rights come in a variety of forms. Some of the most notable efforts involve onerous voter-ID laws and closing early-voting windows. But in Florida, GOP officials have also placed sweeping restrictions on voter-registration drives. As Laura explained overnight, new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12192,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12191\/revisions\/12192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}