{"id":181695,"date":"2016-04-11T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T22:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/04\/11\/how-convenient-15\/"},"modified":"2016-04-11T17:55:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T22:55:00","slug":"how-convenient-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/04\/11\/how-convenient-15\/","title":{"rendered":"How Convenient!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Chris Kobach, the Kansas Secretary of State, who has been the vociferous opponent of voting rights in the United States, just <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/kansas-spanish-voter-guides-errors\">sent out a Spanish language voter guide with the wrong date for the registration deadline<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>If you believe that this was a good faith mistake, I have some mountains in Kansas to sell to you:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Spanish-language voter guides from Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach&#8217;s office include two errors about registering to vote in the state, while the English guides do not include the same errors. <\/p>\n<p>The Spanish-language guides said that <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">voters could register up to 15 days before the election, while the English version included the correct deadline, 21 days before the election<\/span><\/b>, as the <a href=\"http:\/\/m.dailykos.com\/stories\/2016\/4\/7\/1512132\/-Kansas-New-Play-On-Voter-Disenfranchisement-Voter-Guidelines-Are-Different-In-Spanish\">Daily Kos<\/a> flagged last week. And while the English guides told voters they could use their passport as a photo ID, <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">the guides in Spanish did not include a passport in the list<\/span><\/b>. <\/p>\n<p>Kobach is notorious for his push to enact strict voter ID laws in the state, impose other voting restrictions, and pursue criminal prosecutions of alleged voting fraud. Kansas <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/kris-kobach-aclu-communists\">faces several challenges<\/a> to its law requiring proof of citizenship for residents to register to vote.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was deliberate, and his office should be raided by, and treated as a crime scene by the Feds.<\/p>\n<p>This guy is a bigger threat to America than Osama bin Laden ever was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Kobach, the Kansas Secretary of State, who has been the vociferous opponent of voting rights in the United States, just sent out a Spanish language voter guide with the wrong date for the registration deadline. If you believe that this was a good faith mistake, I have some mountains in Kansas to sell 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":[971,970,969,1084],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-corruption","category-evil","category-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}