{"id":139,"date":"2004-10-10T12:04:02","date_gmt":"2004-10-10T16:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=139"},"modified":"2004-10-10T00:06:46","modified_gmt":"2004-10-10T04:06:46","slug":"the-gop-not-just-stifling-the-vote-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"The GOP: not just stifling the vote in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve pretty well documented how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/index.php?p=21\">Florida<\/a> is going to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/index.php?p=91\">sticky problem state<\/a> yet again this coming November&#8230; partly because hurricanes have blasted them into the stone-age, and because of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/index.php?p=129\">well-documented<\/a> GOP efforts to disenfranchise voters there.  Well apparently, stifling the vote in Florida just wasn&#8217;t enough.  Now, Republican party officials have been caught red-handed in similar hijinks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc25.com\/news\/default.asp?mode=shownews&#038;id=2536\">this time in West Virginia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a letter, Berkeley County clerk John Smalls cites calls from a cell phone were made to Eastern Panhandle democrats telling them that they were not registered to vote. The letter also said the calls informed democrats in some cases they wouldn&#8217;t be able to vote on Election Day. <\/p>\n<p>John Ott is the top election official in Jefferson County. &#8220;This is an improper act and they should notify the proper authorities,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe the GOP is starting to have doubts that their centerpiece candidate can be fairly re-elected?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans have been caught red-handed trying to discourage Democratic voters from showing up at the polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}