{"id":3507,"date":"2006-09-21T14:21:05","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T21:21:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-09-21T15:29:36","modified_gmt":"2006-09-21T22:29:36","slug":"let-america-vote-act-picks-up-steam-in-media-and-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3507","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;LET AMERICA VOTE ACT&#8217; Picks Up Steam in Media and Congress&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Much<\/i> happening at the moment. Hopefully details to come later today\/tonight.<\/p>\n<p>For the moment, I&#8217;ll point you to <a href=\"http:\/\/uspolitics.about.com\/b\/a\/207871.htm\">Kathy Gill&#8217;s coverage at About.com<\/a> of my proposal for the &#8220;LET AMERICA VOTE ACT&#8221; (LAVA), a call for a federal Emergency Paper Ballots mandate at <i>all<\/i> polling places this November. I originally proposed the idea, asking Congress to pass this measure immediately <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3495\">here<\/a>. A follow-up, including suggested legislative language for the very simple act was posted <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3502\">here<\/a> yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The LAVA legislation seems to be generating quite a bit of buzz right now in certain sectors on Capitol Hill. Hope to have more details for you later. But with just about 5 legislative days left before the pre-election recess, <i>please<\/i> continue to make noise about it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visi.com\/juan\/congress\/\">contact your Congress members<\/a> and let&#8217;s save whatever we can this November!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much happening at the moment. Hopefully details to come later today\/tonight. For the moment, I&#8217;ll point you to Kathy Gill&#8217;s coverage at About.com of my proposal for the &#8220;LET AMERICA VOTE ACT&#8221; (LAVA), a call for a federal Emergency Paper Ballots mandate at all polling places this November. I originally proposed the idea, asking Congress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,28,147],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2006","category-election-reform","category-lava"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3507"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}