{"id":45974,"date":"2014-10-16T09:12:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T15:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/16\/forty-thousand-mostly-minority-voter-registrations-vanish-in-georgia-how-convenient.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T10:02:02","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T17:02:02","slug":"forty-thousand-mostly-minority-voter-registrations-vanish-in-georgia-how-convenient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/16\/forty-thousand-mostly-minority-voter-registrations-vanish-in-georgia-how-convenient.html","title":{"rendered":"Forty thousand mostly minority voter registrations vanish in Georgia. How convenient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, no, nothing funny going on here at all, nothing to see, move along &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/washwire\/2014\/10\/13\/voter-registration-drive-in-georgia-leads-to-lawsuit'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/qHWGU-8QP-C-gBnNdc4NW-4OvSNsakODNOekhqe77tm91mo4qBBa8tukTDhGvAVkqQgn3UX6r3OrPq2vL54s1dkp8MH24nsTIDCA2Xe0Su4GO1zBgbf97_FMie1G1A=w506-h303-p' border='0' \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/washwire\/2014\/10\/13\/voter-registration-drive-in-georgia-leads-to-lawsuit'>Voter Registration Drive in Georgia Leads to Lawsuit<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nA nonprofit group working to register minority voters in Georgia filed suit, claiming officials have failed to process tens of thousands of voter applications ahead of the Nov. 4 vote.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/Y8BmAwqm3dH'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, no, nothing funny going on here at all, nothing to see, move along &#8230; Voter Registration Drive in Georgia Leads to Lawsuit A nonprofit group working to register minority voters in Georgia filed suit, claiming officials have failed to process tens of thousands of voter applications ahead of the Nov. 4 vote. View on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/16\/forty-thousand-mostly-minority-voter-registrations-vanish-in-georgia-how-convenient.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Forty thousand mostly minority voter registrations vanish in Georgia. How convenient&#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":[106,353,347],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2014","category-voting-rights"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135157,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/23\/wisconsin-voter-suppression-2016.html","url_meta":{"origin":45974,"position":0},"title":"On Wisconsin and Voter Suppression in 2016","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 23-Oct-17 1:55pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Voter ID laws and similar shenanigans are always passed with the ostensible justification that they prevent voter fraud -- even though evidence of such fraud is always starkly lacking. 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