{"id":6412,"date":"2008-09-22T12:36:56","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T19:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6412"},"modified":"2008-09-23T12:07:02","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T19:07:02","slug":"voter-suppression-wiki-created-to-track-new-incoming-gop-assaults-on-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6412","title":{"rendered":"Voter Suppression &#8216;Wiki&#8217; Created to Track New, Incoming GOP Assaults on Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Working on a number of deadlines today, so pardon the light posting for the moment. In the meantime, the blizzard of anti-democracy GOP voter-caging\/suppression reports continue to come in from around the country.<\/p>\n<p>While we will, no doubt, have more on all of the latest soon, I wanted to quickly point out the brand new <a href=\"http:\/\/votersuppressionwiki.wetpaint.com\/\">Voter Suppression Wiki<\/a> that was set up late last week, by Baratunde Thurston, to track some of the stuff now rolling in at an alarming pace (with vastly inadequate Obama\/Dem response, as far as I can tell.)<\/p>\n<p>Thurston <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/baratunde-thurston\/announcing-the-launch-of_b_127495.html\">introduced the new participatory Wiki<\/a> in a HuffPo article late last week. He included, along with it, a quick introductory video that pulls just together just some of the reports piling in from just the day or two before he finally decided such a site was very much needed. That short video alone is worth a quick view, as it offers a pretty astounding collection of just a few of the most appalling incidents rolling in the news late last week, courtesy of the well-organized GOP troops marshaling the latest full-frontal assualt (surge!) in the coordinated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2008\/aug\/20\/uselections2008.civilliberties\">Republican War on Democracy<\/a>. Here the short video&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"340\" height=\"280\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/u0aMMqvZ69s&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/u0aMMqvZ69s&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"340\" height=\"280\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<div class=\"BBTOORepost\">Please help support our continuing coverage of your election system, as found <em>nowhere<\/em> else. <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5705\"><b>Click here<\/b><\/a> for a number of cool collector&#8217;s edition premiums <b>now available starting at just $5!<\/b> to help <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\">The BRAD BLOG<\/a> keep up the fight for election integrity in <i>your<\/i> democracy!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working on a number of deadlines today, so pardon the light posting for the moment. In the meantime, the blizzard of anti-democracy GOP voter-caging\/suppression reports continue to come in from around the country. While we will, no doubt, have more on all of the latest soon, I wanted to quickly point out the brand new [&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":[169,122,106,6,300,280,243],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dirty-tricks","category-election-2008","category-election-fraud","category-election-irregularities","category-republicans","category-vote-caging","category-voter-registration"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6412","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=6412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6412"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}