{"id":34477,"date":"2019-08-03T09:46:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T09:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=34477"},"modified":"2019-08-03T09:46:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T09:46:04","slug":"alarm-over-voter-purges-as-17m-americans-removed-from-rolls-in-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=34477","title":{"rendered":"Alarm over voter purges as 17m Americans removed from rolls in two years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fields with discriminatory record purging at higher ratesPurges intensified following 2013 supreme court decision<\/p>\n<p>US election districts with records of heinous voter discrimination have been purging voter rolls at a rate 40% beyond the national average, according to a watchdog report liberated Thursday.<\/p>\n<p> Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/jun\/04\/tennessee-law-aims-to-suppress-african-american-votes-lawsuit\">Activists say brand-new Tennessee law aims to suppress African American votes<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/aug\/01\/voter-purges-us-elections-brennan-center-report\">Continue reading &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/aug\/01\/voter-purges-us-elections-brennan-center-report\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fields with discriminatory record purging at higher ratesPurges intensified following 2013 supreme court decision US election districts with records of heinous voter discrimination have been purging voter rolls at a rate 40% beyond the national average, according to a watchdog report liberated Thursday. Related: Activists say brand-new Tennessee law aims to suppress African American votes &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8925,15616,1953],"class_list":["post-34477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-us-congress","tag-us-news","tag-us-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/54721564825564.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}