{"id":58,"date":"2011-09-13T20:04:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T00:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?page_id=58"},"modified":"2011-09-24T08:20:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T12:20:23","slug":"election-2012-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/election-2012-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Election 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

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News and information about the national, state, and local elections next November.<\/h3>\n

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Below are the latest articles about Election 2012.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Blacks, Hispanics Waited Almost Twice As Long To Vote As Whites In 2012<\/a><\/div>
February 6, 2013<\/div>
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During the November 2012 election, Black and Hispanic voters waited nearly twice as long to vote as whites, according to a Massachusetts Institute of Technology analysis. New York Times\u00a0graphs\u00a0summarizing the analysis\u00a0show that white voters waited an average of 12.7 minutes, while Black and Hispanic voters waited an average of 20.2 minutes:<\/p>\n

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Long lines in several swing states were a major concern during this election, and the longest lines were in Florida, where another recent study estimated that at least 201,000 people may have been deterred from voting by lines that were hours long.<\/p>\n

MORE:<\/strong>\u00a0 Blacks, Hispanics Waited Almost Twice As Long To Vote As Whites In 2012 | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Report: Ohio Secretary Of State’s Restrictive Voting Hours Hurt Urban Voters<\/a><\/div>
January 23, 2013<\/div>
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Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted (R) became one of the most notorious election officials in the country after his many attempts to restrict voting and discard ballots. Husted banned evening and weekend voting hours in all 88 boards of election, in spite of multiple counties\u2018 requests to stay open to accommodate people who could not leave their jobs to vote. The 2012 election was the first time election boards were not allowed to set their own hours.<\/p>\n

A new report by the Northeast Ohio Voter Advocates found that these uniform voting hours created longer waits in urban counties. Residents of cities like Columbus experienced marathon lines on the last day of early voting. Even though more people turned out to vote in smaller counties than did in urban counties, rural Ohioans experienced little to no wait to vote:<\/p>\n

MORE:<\/strong>\u00a0 Report: Ohio Secretary Of State’s Restrictive Voting Hours Hurt Urban Voters | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Second Inauguration of Barack Obama<\/a><\/div>
January 22, 2013<\/div>
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This morning, at 11:55 AM Eastern Time, President Obama delivered his Second Inaugural Address. The speech was 2,137 words long and took 15 minutes to deliver.<\/p>\n

“America\u2019s possibilities are limitless,” he said, “for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands: youth and drive; diversity and openness; an endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention. My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it — so long as we seize it together.”<\/p>\n

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