{"id":9031,"date":"2010-11-02T18:38:17","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T18:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/11\/02\/more-on-kansas-voter-intimidat\/"},"modified":"2010-11-02T18:38:17","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T18:38:17","slug":"more-on-kansas-voter-intimidat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/02\/more-on-kansas-voter-intimidat\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Kansas Voter Intimidation by Republicans and Teabaggers"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Kansas Democratic Party has leveled a charge of voter intimidation and has filed a complaint with the Kansas Attorney General&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Kansas Democratic Party, they received allegations from &#8220;individual&#8221; voters from around Kansas who claimed to have received a robo-call from who they called an &#8220;as yet named Republican organization&#8221; reminding them to bring their voter registration card and proof of home ownership with them to the polls on Nov. 3.<\/p>\n<p>First, the election is slated for Nov. 2 and second, Kansas voters are not required to bring a voter registration card nor proof of home ownership to the polls when they vote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no place for voter intimidation in our electoral process,&#8221; said Kansas Democratic Party Chairman Larry Gates. &#8220;Every Kansas voter should feel comfortable with their right to cast a ballot and understand tactics like these are lies meant to scare them away from exercising that right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gavin Young, spokesman for Kansas Attorney General Steve Six said that there has been an investigation opened into the allegations because voter intimidation is a felony under Kansas law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.morningsun.net\/news\/x1928790600\/Dems-charge-GOP-voter-intimidation\"><br \/>\nread the rest here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas Democratic Party has leveled a charge of voter intimidation and has filed a complaint with the Kansas Attorney General&#8217;s office. According to the Kansas Democratic Party, they received allegations from &#8220;individual&#8221; voters from around Kansas who claimed to have received a robo-call from who they called an &#8220;as yet named Republican organization&#8221; reminding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/02\/more-on-kansas-voter-intimidat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More on Kansas Voter Intimidation by Republicans and Teabaggers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4588],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2lF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}