{"id":39497,"date":"2013-11-01T23:06:32","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T05:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/01\/just-in-case-there-was-any-doubt-about-polling-place-reform.html"},"modified":"2013-11-04T07:08:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T14:08:12","slug":"just-in-case-there-was-any-doubt-about-polling-place-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/01\/just-in-case-there-was-any-doubt-about-polling-place-reform.html","title":{"rendered":"Just in case there was any doubt about polling place reform"},"content":{"rendered":"
Why has the GOP been so gung-ho about curbing early voting and extended voting hours? Is it to save costs and somehow avoid fraud? \u00a0Nah. It's to reduce voting by Democrats. Don't believe me? Ask some folks who used to be in the GOP power structure, but now aren't.<\/div>\n

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Former Florida GOP leaders say voter suppression was reason…<\/a>
\n A new Florida law that contributed to long voter lines and caused some to abandon voting altogether was intentionally designed by Florida GOP staff and consultants to inhibit Democratic voters, former GOP officials and current GOP consultants have told The Palm Beach Post.\n <\/p>\n

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Why has the GOP been so gung-ho about curbing early voting and extended voting hours? Is it to save costs and somehow avoid fraud? \u00a0Nah. It's to reduce voting by Democrats. Don't believe me? Ask some folks who used to be in the GOP power structure, but now aren't. Former Florida GOP leaders say voter … Continue reading “Just in case there was any doubt about polling place reform”<\/span><\/a><\/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-39497","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":138358,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/20\/voting-rights-you-don-need-no-steenking-voting-rights.html","url_meta":{"origin":39497,"position":0},"title":"“Voting Rights? 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But, hey, if it delegitimizes Democratic winners and suppresses votes from supposed Democratic citizens, well, game on!Reshared post from +Jim Feig Embedded Link GOP Voter Fraud Hucksters Latest Lie: Felons Made Franken U.S. Senator\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13629,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/03\/scientists_for_obama.html","url_meta":{"origin":39497,"position":2},"title":"Scientists for Obama","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 3-Nov-08 9:46am","format":false,"excerpt":"Alex Palazzo examines why so many scientists are voting for Obama -- or, in more cases, voting against conservatives. 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