{"id":53860,"date":"2015-06-17T05:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T10:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53860"},"modified":"2015-06-16T11:22:34","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T16:22:34","slug":"the-first-amendment-is-my-voter-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53860","title":{"rendered":"The First Amendment Is My Voter Registration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My neighbor just renewed her Permit to Vote.\u00a0 She\u2019s good to go for another five years.<\/p>\n<p>You didn\u2019t know about that?\u00a0 Oh yes, it turns out that voting is not a Right protected by the Constitution, it\u2019s a Privilege given by the government to those who qualify.\u00a0 Applicants must be over 21 years of age, reside in this country legally, take a class at personal expense, demonstrate proper technique before a certified evaluator, show photo ID and submit an application with payment of fees to the County, authorize release of medical data and criminal history . . . it\u2019s fairly involved, requires planning ahead and costs a bit of money.\u00a0 But the permit is necessary to ensure the integrity of the election process which is the foundation of American government, so it\u2019s a common sense voter-control requirement.<\/p>\n<p>Wait, did I say Vote?\u00a0 I meant Carry.\u00a0 Sorry, my bad.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This could lead to all sort of &#8220;Vote Safety&#8221; legislation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: My neighbor just renewed her Permit to Vote.\u00a0 She\u2019s good to go for another five years. You didn\u2019t know about that?\u00a0 Oh yes, it turns out that voting is not a Right protected by the Constitution, it\u2019s a Privilege given by the government to those who qualify.\u00a0 Applicants must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53861,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53860\/revisions\/53861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}