{"id":6368,"date":"2020-03-05T05:03:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T12:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uswps02.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/?p=6368?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2020-03-05T05:21:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T12:21:01","slug":"election-clerks-say-referendum-suppresses-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2020\/03\/05\/election-clerks-say-referendum-suppresses-votes\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Election Clerks Say Referendum Suppresses Votes"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Election administrators from three Montana counties  told lawmakers Thursday that a voter-passed referendum  that limits who can drop off a person\u2019s absentee ballot is frustrating electors, suppressing  votes and is easily bypassed.<br \/>\n\t  The Ballot Interference Prevention Act requires election  clerks to ask anyone who drops off a ballot if they\u2019re dropping off someone else\u2019s ballot and, if so,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6368"}],"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=6368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6487,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6368\/revisions\/6487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6368"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=6368"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=6368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}