{"id":3033,"date":"2011-05-31T10:46:11","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T10:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=3033"},"modified":"2011-05-31T10:46:11","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T10:46:11","slug":"a_trend_to_reduce_voter_fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=3033","title":{"rendered":"A Trend To Reduce Voter Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we gear up for the 2012 election (yes, I know it is waaay too early), many states are looking at ways to cut back on the amount of voter fraud.&nbsp; Many states saw fraudulent voter registration in the last election.&nbsp; There have been many stories across the internet about the investigations of these problems.&nbsp; Houston Votes was an organization that registered 25,000 new voters for the 2008 election.&nbsp; A later investigation by an organization called True The Vote found that only 1,793 of those were actually legally registered voters.&nbsp; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/2011\/03\/combating-voter-fraud.html\">RightWingGranny.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2011%2F05%2F28%2FMN121JMTVQ.DTL\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>&nbsp;posted an article stating:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Less than 18 months before the next presidential election, Republican-controlled statehouses around the country are rewriting voting laws to require photo identification at the polls, reduce the number of days of early voting or tighten registration rules.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Why is it that only Republican-controlled statehouses are trying to prevent voter fraud?&nbsp; Where are the Democrats?&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Democrats complain that the requirement for voter ID blocks young voters, elderly voters and minority voters from being able to vote.&nbsp; I am not an expert on this, but how do the people in that group buy cigarettes, alcohol, or cough medicine?&nbsp; I really think that if you have to show identification to purchase these things, it is not unreasonable to have to show some form of identification to vote.<\/p>\n<p>Again, it is the interesting that the Democrats don&#8217;t seem to support measures&nbsp;to prevent voter fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we gear up for the 2012 election (yes, I know it is waaay too early), many states are looking at ways to cut back on the amount of voter fraud.&nbsp; Many states saw fraudulent voter registration in the last &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=3033\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}