{"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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"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 - 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