{"id":93938,"date":"2022-03-30T16:14:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T16:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=93938"},"modified":"2022-03-30T16:14:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T16:14:22","slug":"a-decline-in-polling-places-noted-around-arkansas-coincidentally-or-not-that-makes-it-harder-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=93938","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A decline in polling places noted around Arkansas. Coincidentally or not, that makes it harder to vote&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/arktimes.com\/arkansas-blog\/2022\/03\/30\/a-decline-in-polling-places-noted-around-arkansas-coincidentally-or-not-that-makes-it-harder-to-vote\" target=\"_blank\">AR Times:<\/a> &#8220;A complete review isn\u2019t readily available, but reports are increasing of Arkansas counties reducing the number of polling places in the May primary election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fewer polling places mean affected voters will have to find new and perhaps farther distant places to vote. Is this a part of the national vote suppression effort of the Republican Party, which controls county election commissions in Arkansas? Yes or no, harder voting is a result.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AR Times: &#8220;A complete review isn\u2019t readily available, but reports are increasing of Arkansas counties reducing the number of polling places in the May primary election. Fewer polling places mean affected voters will have to find new and perhaps farther distant places to vote. Is this a part of the national vote suppression effort of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93940,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93938\/revisions\/93940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}