{"id":7081,"date":"2009-04-19T16:12:58","date_gmt":"2009-04-19T23:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7081"},"modified":"2009-04-20T11:02:41","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T18:02:41","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-april-18-and-19-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7081","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For April 18 and 19, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my opinion voter suppression is an ugly act. When one party is in power and then pushes legislation that only serves to help to ensure they will stay in power then there is something wrong with our democracy. This is now the case in Florida where the party in power waited until week seven of a nine week legislative session to attempt to ram-rod through bills in both the House and Senate that will help to ensure they stay in power. Our two &#8216;Featured&#8217; editorials (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/opinion\/editorials\/article993149.ece\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/19\/opinion\/19sun2.html?_r=1&#038;ref=opinion\">here<\/a>) explain what is happening in Florida much better than I can. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Featured &#8211; FL: Editorial &#8211; GOP power grab is an affront to voters<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/opinion\/editorials\/article993149.ece\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/opinion\/editorials\/article993149.ece<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Featured &#8211; FL: Editorial &#8211; Suppressing the Vote in Florida <br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/19\/opinion\/19sun2.html?_r=1&#038;ref=opinion\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/19\/opinion\/19sun2.html?_r=1&#038;ref=opinion<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>National: Opinion &#8211; No Country for Close Calls <br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/19\/opinion\/19silver.html?_r=1&#038;ref=opinion\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/19\/opinion\/19silver.html?_r=1&#038;ref=opinion<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>National: Voting Rights Act has passionate, strong advocate in Sensenbrenner <br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/statepolitics\/43234327.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/statepolitics\/43234327.html<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Riverside County &#8211; JACOBS: Supervisors demonstrate selective hearing<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2009\/04\/19\/opinion\/jacobs\/z1c926e6627c8bc848825759b0064e069.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2009\/04\/19\/opinion\/jacobs\/z1c926e6627c8bc848825759b0064e069.txt<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IL: Low turnout has state debating voting by mail<br \/>\nGovernor sees Oregon as model<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galesburg.com\/news\/news_state\/x718260423\/Low-turnout-has-state-debating-voting-by-mail\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.galesburg.com\/news\/news_state\/x718260423\/Low-turnout-has-state-debating-voting-by-mail<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: Voters could register on Election Day<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uticaod.com\/news\/x1092973969\/Voters-could-register-on-Election-Day\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.uticaod.com\/news\/x1092973969\/Voters-could-register-on-Election-Day<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: Voter discrimination law debate rages<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news8austin.com\/content\/headlines\/?ArID=238306&#038;SecID=2\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.news8austin.com\/content\/headlines\/?ArID=238306&#038;SecID=2<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>**&#8221;Daily Voting News&#8221; is meant as a comprehensive listing of reports each day concerning issues related to election and voting news around the country regardless of quality or political slant. Therefore, items listed in &#8220;Daily Voting News&#8221; may not reflect the opinions of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.VotersUnite.org\">VotersUnite.Org<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\">BradBlog.Com<\/a>**<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my opinion voter suppression is an ugly act. When one party is in power and then pushes legislation that only serves to help to ensure they will stay in power then there is something wrong with our democracy. This is now the case in Florida where the party in power waited until week seven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[9,28,172,300],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-voting-news","category-election-reform","category-photo-id-laws","category-republicans","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7081","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7081"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}