{"id":5855,"date":"2012-05-05T22:01:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T05:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=5855"},"modified":"2012-05-05T22:01:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T05:01:50","slug":"cnns-92-yr-old-civil-rights-activist-says-voter-id-law-may-prevent-her-from-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/cnns-92-yr-old-civil-rights-activist-says-voter-id-law-may-prevent-her-from-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN&#8217;s 92-yr-old Civil Rights Activist Says Voter ID Law MAY Prevent Her From Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vU0enMeFZ7M?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"360\" height=\"213\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never heard from any of these civil rights activists whining when they have had to produce ID to:<br \/>\n&#8211; Drive a car<br \/>\n&#8211; Buy liquor\/ cigarettes<br \/>\n&#8211; Opening a bank account<br \/>\n&#8211; Pay by check or credit card (some places do card you even if you use a cc)<br \/>\n&#8211; Cash a check<br \/>\n&#8211; Getting a PO Box<br \/>\n&#8211; Buy\/ rent a house<br \/>\n&#8211; Buy\/ rent a car<br \/>\n&#8211; Buy a gun<br \/>\n&#8211; Buy insurance<br \/>\n&#8211; Going through security at the airport<br \/>\n&#8211; Getting into a night club<br \/>\n&#8211; Gambling in a casino (if you look young!)<br \/>\n&#8211; Obtaining a marriage license<br \/>\n&#8211; Applying for state services (welfare\/food stamps\/ unemployment)<br \/>\netc etc etc<\/p>\n<p>So when these <em>poor poor<\/em> discriminated people being asked to produce ID to vote start whining about all these other things maybe&#8230; just maybe I&#8217;ll give them a second thought. As of now all I hear are people trying to weasel their way into finding a way to vote as many times as possible!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never heard from any of these civil rights activists whining when they have had to produce ID to: &#8211; Drive a car &#8211; Buy liquor\/ cigarettes &#8211; Opening a bank account &#8211; Pay by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[15,549,9987],"tags":[12013,12012,12015,12019,12020,12017,6142,12018,12016,6996,1393,12021,12014],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}