{"id":6552,"date":"2012-10-31T14:18:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T19:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=6552"},"modified":"2012-10-31T14:40:43","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T19:40:43","slug":"federal-judge-judge-blocks-nd-election-day-campaign-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=6552","title":{"rendered":"Federal Judge  blocks ND Election Day Campaign Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/politicalsign.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6559\" title=\"politicalsign\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/politicalsign.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"157\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 A federal judge says the state of North Dakota can&#8217;t enforce its law that bans Election Day campaigning.<\/p>\n<p>In a decision Wednesday, Judge Daniel Hovland says the ban violates the free-speech rights of candidates and North Dakotans in general.<\/p>\n<p>His order grants a request for a preliminary injunction.<\/p>\n<p>It bars the state and local prosecutors from going after anyone who violates the ban.<\/p>\n<p>Former North Dakota Republican state chairman Gary Emineth sued earlier this month to challenge the law.<\/p>\n<p>The law is more than a century old. It says no one can do any campaigning on Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the law, candidates don&#8217;t run Election Day ads, and they take down their yard signs the night before the vote. Violations of the law carry a $500 fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 A federal judge says the state of North Dakota can&#8217;t enforce its law that bans Election Day campaigning. In a decision Wednesday, Judge Daniel Hovland says the ban violates the free-speech rights of candidates and North Dakotans in general. His order grants a request for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14,35,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-jamestown","category-state","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6552"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6560,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6552\/revisions\/6560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}