{"id":234715,"date":"2016-03-29T15:31:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T15:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/voter-suppression-in-maricopa-county\/"},"modified":"2016-03-29T15:31:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T15:31:42","slug":"voter-suppression-in-maricopa-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/voter-suppression-in-maricopa-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Voter Suppression in Maricopa County"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"218.03062426384\">\n<p>If you don\u2019t already know what\u2019s going on in Arizona, and in Maricopa County in particular, you\u2019re bound to hear more about the voter suppression that took place last week, on March 22, during the state\u2019s presidential primaries. The local papers promptly reported that the county provided just one polling place per every 21,000 voters. Indeed, we suffered greatly in Maricopa due to the decrease in polling sites\u2014down from 200 in 2012, to only 60 sites last week. Passing a downtown polling place, I spotted a line that seemed at least 100 people long. They wrapped the corner well after 11 p.m., and some had their children with them.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, March 28, I went down to the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2016\/03\/voter-suppression-in-maricopa-county\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you don\u2019t already know what\u2019s going on in Arizona, and in Maricopa County in particular, you\u2019re bound to hear more about the voter suppression that took place last week, on March 22, during the state\u2019s presidential primaries. The local papers promptly reported that the county provided just one polling place per every 21,000 voters. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-234715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}