{"id":35530,"date":"2012-11-06T22:28:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T22:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/usa_today_long_lines_new_laws_confront_some_voters\/"},"modified":"2012-11-06T22:28:27","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T22:28:27","slug":"usa_today_long_lines_new_laws_confront_some_voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35530","title":{"rendered":"(USA Today) Long lines, new laws confront some voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans turned out to vote Tuesday morning, facing long lines, strict new identification requirements and in some areas, polling stations without power.<\/p>\n<p>Election observers said they had seen a scattering of problems this morning, including hours-long lines in South Florida, malfunctioning voting machines in key Ohio precincts and Pennsylvania poll workers asking voters to show identification when they didn&#8217;t need to.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s already started, and it is busy,&#8221; said Barbara Arnwine, the executive director of the Lawyers&#8217; Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, which monitors voting problems. &#8220;Voters are doing their part by being persistent and voting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2012\/11\/06\/voting-problems-presidential-election\/1685783\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans turned out to vote Tuesday morning, facing long lines, strict new identification requirements and in some areas, polling stations without power. Election observers said they had seen a scattering of problems this morning, including hours-long lines in South Florida,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35530\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-us-presidential-election-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}