{"id":1469,"date":"2011-09-03T06:08:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T06:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/03\/columnist-registering-poor-to-vote-like-handing\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:30:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:30:33","slug":"columnist-registering-poor-to-vote-like-handing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/09\/03\/columnist-registering-poor-to-vote-like-handing\/","title":{"rendered":"Columnist: Registering Poor To Vote ‘Like Handing Out Burglary Tools To Criminals’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Conservative columnist Matthew Vadum is just going to come right out and say it: registering the poor to vote is un-American and “like handing out burglary tools to criminals.”…
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Via Scoop.it – Rights & Liberties Conservative columnist Matthew Vadum is just going to come right out and say it: registering the poor to vote is un-American and “like handing out burglary tools to criminals.”…Show original<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1450,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/09\/11\/treat-hackers-as-organized-criminals-says\/","url_meta":{"origin":1469,"position":0},"title":"Treat Hackers As Organized Criminals, Says Government","author":"aslam","date":"September 11, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesObama administration seeks tougher penalties for cybercrime, but legal experts warn that current, imprecise proposals could be too widely applied.Show original","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1272,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/16\/children-of-the-cannabis-trade\/","url_meta":{"origin":1469,"position":1},"title":"Children of the cannabis trade","author":"aslam","date":"December 16, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & Liberties An investigation into how Vietnamese children trafficked to work in the UK\u2019s cannabis trade are prosecuted as criminals.Via aljazeera.com","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":427,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2014\/10\/03\/how-the-us-falsely-accused-a-palestinian-teacher\/","url_meta":{"origin":1469,"position":2},"title":"How the US falsely accused a Palestinian teacher of aiding terror | The Electronic Intifada","author":"aslam","date":"October 3, 2014","format":"link","excerpt":"Times Union columnist Fred LeBrun, who followed Aref\u2019s trial closely, wrote, \u201cSomeday we\u2019ll look back on the present national paranoia over terrorism and the excesses done in its name with the same national embarrassment that Americans feel for Senator Joe McCarthy\u2019s communist witch hunts of the 1950s and our appalling\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":947,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/07\/15\/australia-government-defends-web-spy-powers\/","url_meta":{"origin":1469,"position":3},"title":"Australia government defends web spy powers","author":"aslam","date":"July 15, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"See on Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesTHE Gillard government has defended a plan to force telcos to store the internet and phone data of all Australians for up to two years, saying it is needed to allow our intelligence and police agencies to effectively target organised criminals and terrorists.See on\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1433,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/09\/26\/saudi-women-to-get-right-to-vote\/","url_meta":{"origin":1469,"position":4},"title":"Saudi women to get right to vote","author":"aslam","date":"September 26, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & Liberties Women in Saudi Arabia are to be given the right to vote and run in future municipal elections, the country\u2019s King Abdullah announces.Show original","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2018\/05\/11\/congress-will-vote-to-save-net-neutrality\/","url_meta":{"origin":1469,"position":5},"title":"Congress will vote to save net neutrality","author":"aslam","date":"May 11, 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"https:\/\/www.battleforthenet.com\/redalert\/Breaking: the Senate is about to vote on a resolution to save net neutrality and stop ISPs from ruining the Internet. 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