{"id":137,"date":"2008-04-29T19:06:39","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T02:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=137"},"modified":"2008-04-29T19:06:39","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T02:06:39","slug":"supreme-court-legalizes-voter-suppression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2008\/04\/29\/supreme-court-legalizes-voter-suppression\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Legalizes Voter Suppression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The headline&#8217;s from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openleft.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=5437\">Project Vote&#8217;s post on OpenLeft<\/a>, which also has a great quote from their board member Donna Massey:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The real purpose of strict photo voter ID rules is to make it more difficult for some Americans to vote. It&#8217;s the voters who are less likely to vote who are also less likely to have government issued ID, such as young people, the poor, elderly, and Americans of color. A University of Washington study, for example, found that in Indiana 22 percent of African-American voters lack proper identification compared to 16 percent of white voters. Twenty-one percent of voters earning less than $40,000 a year lack the necessary ID compared to just 13 percent of those earning more than $40,000. All Americans have a right to vote, even if they don&#8217;t have a photo ID.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/wp\/court-rejects-voter-id-challenge\/\">SCOTUSblog has the details<\/a> on the 6-3 decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The headline&#8217;s from Project Vote&#8217;s post on OpenLeft, which also has a great quote from their board member Donna Massey: The real purpose of strict photo voter ID rules is to make it more difficult for some Americans to vote. It&#8217;s the voters who are less likely to vote who are also less likely to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[133,198,294,393],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-election08","tag-law","tag-race","tag-voting-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}