{"id":1257,"date":"2004-11-01T09:25:12","date_gmt":"2004-11-01T14:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/11\/ohio_judge_rules_against_voter\/"},"modified":"2004-11-01T09:25:12","modified_gmt":"2004-11-01T14:25:12","slug":"ohio_judge_rules_against_voter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/11\/ohio_judge_rules_against_voter\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio Judge Rules Against Voter Challengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things have already heated up on the <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.cincypost.com\/2004\/11\/01\/vote110104.html\">electoral litigation front<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A federal judge issued an order about 1:30 a.m. today barring political party challengers from polling places throughout Ohio during Tuesday&#8217;s election.<br \/>\nU.S. District Judge Susan Dlott found that the application of Ohio&#8217;s statute allowing challengers at polling places is unconstitutional. She said the presence of challengers inexperienced in the electoral process questioning voters about their eligibility would impede voting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Republicans say they are appealing to the 6th Circuit.  If the ruling holds, it will be a big setback in the GOP&#8217;s vote suppression plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/11\/ohio_judge_rules_against_voter\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Ohio Judge Rules Against Voter Challengers\"><p>Things have already heated up on the electoral litigation front: A federal judge issued an order about 1:30 a.m. today barring political party challengers from polling places throughout Ohio during Tuesday&#8217;s election. U.S. District Judge Susan Dlott found that the application of Ohio&#8217;s statute allowing challengers at polling places is unconstitutional. She said the presence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}