{"id":10589,"date":"2011-10-13T15:10:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T19:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10589"},"modified":"2011-10-13T13:38:32","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T17:38:32","slug":"96-year-old-woman-voting-now-more-difficult-than-during-jim-crow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10589","title":{"rendered":"96-Year-Old Woman: Voting Now More Difficult Than During Jim Crow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 96-year-old woman who has been voting for more than 70 years, even through the Jim Crow era, said the new voting ID laws in Tennessee have made voting more of a hassle than its ever been.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dorothy Cooper<\/strong> spoke about the difficulties she experienced trying to vote appearing on<strong> Rev. Al Sharpton\u2019s<\/strong> Politics Nation show. According to <strong>Cooper<\/strong>, she was alerted that she would need her marriage certificate to be able to vote. At another voting booth she was told she could vote absentee.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dorothy Cooper<\/strong> states that she never, at the age of 96, thought that voting would be such a hassle. \u201cI never thought that is would be like this ever,\u201d <strong>Cooper<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 96-year-old woman who has been voting for more than 70 years, even through the Jim Crow era, said the new voting ID laws in Tennessee have made voting more of a hassle than its ever been. Dorothy Cooper spoke about the difficulties she experienced trying to vote appearing on Rev. Al Sharpton\u2019s Politics Nation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}