{"id":107681,"date":"2016-09-21T09:35:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T14:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=107681"},"modified":"2016-09-21T09:35:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T14:35:17","slug":"voters-without-ids-may-vote-filing-an-affidavit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=107681","title":{"rendered":"Voters without IDs, may vote, filing an affidavit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-73949\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/VoteNorthCivicCenterOutside-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"VoteNorthCivicCenterOutside\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/VoteNorthCivicCenterOutside-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/VoteNorthCivicCenterOutside-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/VoteNorthCivicCenterOutside.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 A federal judge in North Dakota has ruled that the state must let voters without identification cast a ballot by filing an affidavit.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland issued the order Tuesday. The Bismarck-based judge in August blocked the state&#8217;s voter identification law after it was challenged by a group of Native Americans.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit was filed in January by seven members of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. They alleged that the state&#8217;s voter identification requirements &#8220;disproportionately burden and disenfranchise Native Americans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Prior to 2013, a voter could sign an affidavit attesting to his or her eligibility to vote in the precinct but the state Legislature removed that provision.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 A federal judge in North Dakota has ruled that the state must let voters without identification cast a ballot by filing an affidavit. U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland issued the order Tuesday. The Bismarck-based judge in August blocked the state&#8217;s voter identification law after it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107682,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107681\/revisions\/107682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}