{"id":197665,"date":"2008-01-18T06:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T11:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/18\/john-conyers-pushes-bill-to-ban-voter-caging\/"},"modified":"2008-01-18T06:12:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T11:12:00","slug":"john-conyers-pushes-bill-to-ban-voter-caging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/18\/john-conyers-pushes-bill-to-ban-voter-caging\/","title":{"rendered":"John Conyers Pushes Bill to Ban Voter Caging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmmuckraker.com\/archives\/005094.php\">Good for him<\/a>.  Bascially, voter caging is when (almost exclusively) the GOP sends out emails to groups who are unlikely to vote for them (Blacks and Hispanics) marked, &#8220;Do not forward&#8221;, and then they use this to challenge voter rights.<\/p>\n<p>FWIW, the get lots of active duty military doing this.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure how well it will work.  Gop is already under a consent decree, as I noted <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/kansas-gop-chairman-admits-to-illegal.html\">a month ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good for him. Bascially, voter caging is when (almost exclusively) the GOP sends out emails to groups who are unlikely to vote for them (Blacks and Hispanics) marked, &#8220;Do not forward&#8221;, and then they use this to challenge voter rights. FWIW, the get lots of active duty military doing this. Not sure how well it &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,1052,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-crimes","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197665"}],"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=197665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}