{"id":2179,"date":"2012-07-04T09:41:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T13:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2179"},"modified":"2012-07-04T09:41:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T13:41:24","slug":"republican-michigan-governor-vetoes-gop-voter-suppression-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/07\/republican-michigan-governor-vetoes-gop-voter-suppression-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Michigan Governor Vetoes GOP Voter Suppression Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan Governor Rick Snyder (R) bucked his fellow Republicans on Tuesday by vetoing a voter ID law crafted by GOP members of the state legislature, the Detroit Free Press reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Among the bills vetoed was one requiring photo ID for first voter registration or to obtain an absentee ballot, a requirement that African-American activists claimed was an attempt to deter voting by the urban poor.<br \/>\nSnyder said in a statement that \u201che appreciates the issue of ensuring voters are eligible and U.S. citizens, however this legislation could create voter confusion among absentee voters.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/politics\/2012\/07\/03\/510776\/republican-michigan-governor-vetoes-gop-voter-suppression-law\/\">Republican Michigan Governor Vetoes GOP Voter Suppression Law <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan Governor Rick Snyder (R) bucked his fellow Republicans on Tuesday by vetoing a voter ID law crafted by GOP members of the state legislature, the Detroit Free Press reports: Among the bills vetoed was one requiring photo ID for first voter registration or to obtain an absentee ballot, a requirement that African-American activists claimed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,22,7],"tags":[83,888,1275,1276],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179"}],"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=2179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2180,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions\/2180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}