{"id":32440,"date":"2013-02-05T11:29:56","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T18:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/05\/voting-delayed-is-voting-denied.html"},"modified":"2013-02-05T11:29:56","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T18:29:56","slug":"voting-delayed-is-voting-denied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/05\/voting-delayed-is-voting-denied.html","title":{"rendered":"Voting delayed is voting denied?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Longer voting lines and wait times discourage voters, especially ones who may be working around inflexible work and child care time frames. I can&#39;t think of a single legitimate reason or explanation for Blacks and Hispanics to have had to wait 60% longer (over 20 minutes vs over 13 minutes) to vote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images1-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Screen-shot-2013-02-05-at-10.37.28-AM-e1360078705511.png&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2013\/02\/05\/1542061\/blacks-hispanics-waited-almost-twice-as-long-to-vote-as-whites-in-2012\/'>Blacks, Hispanics Waited Almost Twice As Long To Vote As Whites In 2012<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDuring the November 2012 election, Black and Hispanic voters waited nearly twice as long to vote as whites, according to a Massachusetts Institute of Technology analysis. New York Times graphs summari&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/63rkxcQHj9K' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longer voting lines and wait times discourage voters, especially ones who may be working around inflexible work and child care time frames. I can&#39;t think of a single legitimate reason or explanation for Blacks and Hispanics to have had to wait 60% longer (over 20 minutes vs over 13 minutes) to vote.\u00a0 Embedded Link Blacks, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/05\/voting-delayed-is-voting-denied.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Voting delayed is voting denied?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7684,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/18\/voting_solution.html","url_meta":{"origin":32440,"position":0},"title":"Voting solutions","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 18-Jan-05 9:18am","format":false,"excerpt":"After writing about the prospect of consolidating\/centralizing polling places as a way to improve voting reliability, it turns out that's actually being considered. 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