{"id":28006,"date":"2017-04-14T14:15:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T14:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/03\/08\/pa-senate-passes-voter-id-bill\/"},"modified":"2017-04-14T14:15:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T14:15:45","slug":"pa-senate-passes-voter-id-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/28006","title":{"rendered":"Pa. Senate passes voter ID&nbsp;bill"},"content":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/PhillyInquirer\/status\/177685857426345984\n<p>From <a title=\"Philly\" href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/news\/20120308_Pa__Senate_passes_voter_ID_bill.html\" target=\"_blank\">Philly.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After more than four hours of debate, senators voted, 26-23, to approve the so-called voter ID bill. Its Republican sponsors contend it is needed to protect the integrity of elections. Democrats counter that it is nothing more than a partisan attempt to suppress their side’s votes in a presidential election year.<\/p>\n<p>One after another, Democratic senators rose to argue the exact opposite. Those senators, as well as the Pennsylvania chapter of the ACLU, said Wednesday night they would challenge the measure in court if it becomes law.<\/p>\n<p>Related at Newsbusters: <a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/jeffrey-meyer\/2012\/03\/07\/msnbc-s-phony-war-voting-hysteria\">MSNBC’s Phony ‘War on Voting’ Hysteria<\/a><\/p><p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/03\/08\/pa-senate-passes-voter-id-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/03\/08\/pa-senate-passes-voter-id-bill\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/PhillyInquirer\/status\/177685857426345984 From Philly.com After more than four hours of debate, senators voted, 26-23, to approve the so-called voter ID bill. Its Republican sponsors contend it is needed to protect the integrity of elections. Democrats counter that it is nothing more than a partisan attempt to suppress their side’s votes in a presidential election year. One &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/28006\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pa. Senate passes voter ID&nbsp;bill<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}