{"id":382296,"date":"2018-10-25T03:46:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T02:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/important-victory-for-voting-rights-as-judge-rules-georgia-must-stop-tossing-out-absentee-ballots\/"},"modified":"2018-10-25T03:46:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T02:46:55","slug":"important-victory-for-voting-rights-as-judge-rules-georgia-must-stop-tossing-out-absentee-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/important-victory-for-voting-rights-as-judge-rules-georgia-must-stop-tossing-out-absentee-ballots\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Important Victory&#039; for Voting Rights as Judge Rules Georgia Must Stop Tossing Out Absentee Ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field--name-field-hp-author field--type-text field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">Jake Johnson, staff writer<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-email-teaser field--type-text field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">In what civil rights advocates celebrated as an &#8220;important victory&#8221; for voting rights and democracy less than two weeks away from the midterm elections, a federal judge on Wednesday ruled that Georgia election officials must stop tossing out absentee ballots and applications due to signature mismatches without first giving voters an opportunity to fix or dispute any alleged errors.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/cd_special_coverage\/public\/headline\/thumbs\/georgia_0.jpg?itok=ZMG3y926\" width=\"420\" height=\"220\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2018\/10\/24\/important-victory-voting-rights-judge-rules-georgia-must-stop-tossing-out-absentee?cd-origin=rss\">Common Dreams<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jake Johnson, staff writer In what civil rights advocates celebrated as an &#8220;important victory&#8221; for voting rights and democracy less than two weeks away from the midterm elections, a federal judge on Wednesday ruled that Georgia election officials must stop tossing out absentee ballots and applications due to signature mismatches without first giving voters an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":382297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-382296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382296","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=382296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}