{"id":168,"date":"2008-10-23T11:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/10\/23\/press-republican-thousands-of-north-country-names-dropped-from-voters-lists\/"},"modified":"2008-10-23T11:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T15:29:00","slug":"press-republican-thousands-of-north-country-names-dropped-from-voters-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/10\/23\/press-republican-thousands-of-north-country-names-dropped-from-voters-lists\/","title":{"rendered":"Press-Republican: thousands of North Country names dropped from voters lists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Plattsburgh Press-Republican is reporting that election officials have stripped thousands of names from North Country voting lists, in Clinton, Essex and Franklin Counties.  Here&#8217;s the key passage:<br \/><span><span><span><\/p>\n<p class=\"specialstorytext\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"specialstorytext\">According to a voter-registration database compiled by New Yorkers for Verified Voting, 5,997 North Country residents were purged because they had died, moved, were imprisoned or were disqualified for other reasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"specialstorytext\">Another 10,278 people saw their voter status changed to inactive because they did not respond to letters sent to verify their current address and status.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"specialstorytext\">\n<p>According to the P-R&#8217;s report, voters dropped from the list will likely still be able to cast provisional ballots.  Read the full article here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressrepublican.com\/midday\/local_story_297095908.html\">http:\/\/www.pressrepublican.com\/midday\/local_story_297095908.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Plattsburgh Press-Republican is reporting that election officials have stripped thousands of names from North [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}