{"id":18667,"date":"2012-12-17T15:45:04","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T20:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18667"},"modified":"2012-12-17T15:45:04","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T20:45:04","slug":"eric-holder-we-need-national-standards-for-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18667","title":{"rendered":"Eric Holder: We Need National Standards For Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Attorney General Eric Holder<\/strong> said America\u2019s election system needs to be made \u201cstronger and more accessible,\u201d and defended the Justice Department\u2019s challenges to restrictive voting laws.<\/p>\n<p>In a speech at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, <strong>Holder<\/strong> criticized the country\u2019s \u201cantiquated registration system,\u201d calling it the \u201csingle largest barrier\u201d to American voters. He proposed that modern technology could help alleviate many problems, suggesting an updated voter registration system, coordinated between states, could rely on government databases and be portable, allowing voters to remain registered to vote even when they move.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General Eric Holder said America\u2019s election system needs to be made \u201cstronger and more accessible,\u201d and defended the Justice Department\u2019s challenges to restrictive voting laws. In a speech at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, Holder criticized the country\u2019s \u201cantiquated registration system,\u201d calling it the \u201csingle largest barrier\u201d to American voters. He [&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-18667","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\/18667","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=18667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}