{"id":137909,"date":"2019-02-22T17:05:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T00:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/22\/oregon-considers-its-automatic-voter-registration-a-phenomenal-success.html"},"modified":"2019-02-25T20:00:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T03:00:17","slug":"oregon-considers-its-automatic-voter-registration-a-phenomenal-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/22\/oregon-considers-its-automatic-voter-registration-a-phenomenal-success.html","title":{"rendered":"Oregon considers its automatic voter registration a "phenomenal success""},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, yeah,<\/i> but only if you consider increased voter turn-out, and an electorate that's "less urban … less wealthy … much more diverse" to be good<\/i> things. I do, but clearly there are some people who don't.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nOregon governor calls automatic voter registration a ‘phenomenal success’ – POLITICO<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Well, yeah, but only if you consider increased voter turn-out, and an electorate that's "less urban … less wealthy … much more diverse" to be good things. I do, but clearly there are some people who don't. Oregon governor calls automatic voter registration a ‘phenomenal success’ – POLITICO Original Post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,347],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-voting-rights"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49508,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/06\/oregon-will-have-universal-voter-registration-it-appears.html","url_meta":{"origin":137909,"position":0},"title":"Oregon will have Universal Voter Registration, it appears","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 6-Feb-15 11:32am","format":false,"excerpt":"Which, frankly, is awesome. 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