{"id":1383,"date":"2012-03-07T12:45:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T17:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2012-03-07T12:45:06","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T17:45:06","slug":"86-year-old-ohio-veteran-cant-vote-after-government-issued-id-is-rejected-at-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/03\/86-year-old-ohio-veteran-cant-vote-after-government-issued-id-is-rejected-at-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"86-Year-Old Ohio Veteran Can&#8217;t Vote After Government-Issued ID Is Rejected At Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Carroll, an 86-year-old World War II veteran who has lived in the same Ohio town for four decades, was denied a chance to vote in the state\u2019s primary contests today after a poll worker denied his form of identification, a recently-acquired photo ID from the Department of Veterans Affairs. The poll worker rejected the ID because it did not contain an address, as required by Ohio law.<\/p>\n<p>Carroll told the Cleveland Plain Dealer that he got the ID from the VA after his driver\u2019s license expired because he doesn\u2019t drive anymore:<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2012\/03\/06\/439324\/86-year-old-ohio-veteran-cant-vote-after-government-issued-id-is-rejected-at-poll\/\">86-Year-Old Ohio Veteran Can&#8217;t Vote After Government-Issued ID Is Rejected At Poll | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Carroll, an 86-year-old World War II veteran who has lived in the same Ohio town for four decades, was denied a chance to vote in the state\u2019s primary contests today after a poll worker denied his form of identification, a recently-acquired photo ID from the Department of Veterans Affairs. The poll worker rejected the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,17,22],"tags":[718,557,911,343],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1384,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions\/1384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}