{"id":49873,"date":"2022-12-29T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www-northernplainsindependent-com-uswp*.sitenm.com\/?p=49873?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2024-09-13T15:50:36","modified_gmt":"2027-03-02T15:50:36","slug":"hd-80-hopeful-questions-whether-reservation-votes-should-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2022\/12\/29\/hd-80-hopeful-questions-whether-reservation-votes-should-count\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"HD 80 Hopeful Questions Whether Reservation Votes Should Count"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A legislative aide with aspirations  of representing House District 80 in the 2023 Legislature questioned in public remarks Tuesday, Dec. 23, whether members of tribes living on reservations in Montana should be able to vote in state elections.<br \/>\n\t  \u201cIf the reservations want to say they are independent countries \u2026 but they want a lot of handouts, why are we counting their ballots?\u201d said Drew Zinecker,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"news-destination":[13],"news-source":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49995,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49873\/revisions\/49995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49873"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=49873"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=49873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}