{"id":44638,"date":"2014-04-29T14:33:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T19:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=44638"},"modified":"2014-04-29T14:33:50","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T19:33:50","slug":"fed-judge-strikes-down-wisc-voter-id-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=44638","title":{"rendered":"Fed. Judge Strikes Down Wisc. Voter ID Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/votingbooth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-44639\" alt=\"votingbooth\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/votingbooth.jpg\" width=\"116\" height=\"87\" \/><\/a>MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2013 A federal judge in Milwaukee has struck down Wisconsin\u2019s voter Identification law, saying it unfairly burdens poor and minority voters. Wisconsin\u2019s law would have required voters to show a state-issued photo ID at the polls. Supporters said it would cut down on voter fraud and boost public confidence in the integrity of the election process. But the judge sided with opponents, who said it disproportionately excluded poor and minority voters because they\u2019re less likely to have photo IDs or the documents needed to get them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2013 A federal judge in Milwaukee has struck down Wisconsin\u2019s voter Identification law, saying it unfairly burdens poor and minority voters. Wisconsin\u2019s law would have required voters to show a state-issued photo ID at the polls. Supporters said it would cut down on voter fraud and boost public [&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-44638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44638","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=44638"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44643,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44638\/revisions\/44643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}