{"id":137383,"date":"2021-02-25T08:22:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T16:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=137383"},"modified":"2021-02-25T08:22:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T16:22:21","slug":"vote-suppression-vs-vote-expansion-2-25-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=137383","title":{"rendered":"Vote Suppression vs Vote Expansion (2-25-21)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rhetoric about &#8220;voter fraud&#8221; is not about voter fraud. It is Republican rhetoric aimed at vote suppression, but because this is politically unpalatable to say, Republicans have to lie and talk about &#8220;voter fraud.&#8221; Voter fraud is a crime and there have been few convictions and little evidence for this having massive influence. Vote expansion vs vote suppression does have massive influence.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lyTT8sB-ZfM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rhetoric about &#8220;voter fraud&#8221; is not about voter fraud. It is Republican rhetoric aimed at vote suppression, but because this is politically unpalatable to say, Republicans have to lie and talk about &#8220;voter fraud.&#8221; Voter fraud is a crime and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=137383\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791,42874],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-voter-fraud"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137384,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137383\/revisions\/137384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}