{"id":2429,"date":"2012-08-20T10:39:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T14:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2429"},"modified":"2012-08-20T10:39:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T14:39:10","slug":"ohio-gop-election-board-member-our-voting-process-shouldnt-accommodate-black-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/08\/ohio-gop-election-board-member-our-voting-process-shouldnt-accommodate-black-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio GOP Election Board Member: Our Voting Process Shouldn&#8217;t Accommodate Black Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted\u2019s recent decision to prohibit early voting on nights and weekends in all districts has many concerned about the effect on voter turnout in the state, particularly among low-income and minority communities. But one Republican Party chairman is content to suppress votes among this vulnerable demographic. Doug Preisse, chairman of the Republican Party in Franklin County, which contains the city of Columbus, admitted in an email to the Columbus Dispatch that black voters would now have a more difficult time voting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I guess I really actually feel we shouldn\u2019t contort the voting process to accommodate the urban \u2014 read African-American \u2014 voter-turnout machine. Let\u2019s be fair and reasonable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/election\/2012\/08\/19\/711551\/gop-election-board-member-admits-he-canceled-weekend-voting-in-ohio-to-suppress-the-black-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ohio GOP Election Board Member: Our Voting Process Shouldn&#8217;t Accommodate Black Voters | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted\u2019s recent decision to prohibit early voting on nights and weekends in all districts has many concerned about the effect on voter turnout in the state, particularly among low-income and minority communities. But one Republican Party chairman is content to suppress votes among this vulnerable demographic. Doug Preisse, chairman of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5,17,22],"tags":[1357,26,1204,359,1387],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429"}],"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=2429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2430,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429\/revisions\/2430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}