{"id":2575,"date":"2020-04-20T11:43:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T11:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2575"},"modified":"2020-04-20T11:43:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T11:43:53","slug":"kentucky-just-made-it-harder-to-vote-during-a-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2575","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky just made it harder to vote during a pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Kentucky\u2019s heavily Republican legislature voted Tuesday to require voters to show a government-issued photo ID, overriding Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear\u2019s veto<\/a> in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, if a Kentucky voter heads to the state\u2019s webpage hoping to learn how to obtain such an ID, they will encounter a message<\/a> telling them ID-issuing offices are closed.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Although voter ID\u2019s policy proponents often argue that the measure is necessary to combat voter fraud at the polls, such fraud is so rare that it is virtually nonexistent<\/a>.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/4\/15\/21222084\/kentucky-voter-id-coronavirus-pandemic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Kentucky\u2019s heavily Republican legislature voted Tuesday to require voters to show a government-issued photo ID, overriding Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear\u2019s veto in the process.
\nMeanwhile, if a Kentucky voter heads to the state\u2019s webpage hoping to learn how to obtain such an ID, they will encounter a message telling them ID-issuing offices are closed.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Although voter ID\u2019s policy proponents often argue that the measure is necessary to combat voter fraud at the polls, such fraud is so rare that it is virtually nonexistent.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[711,713,714,712],"class_list":["post-2575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-kentucky","tag-photo-id","tag-voter-fraud","tag-voter-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2576,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions\/2576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}