{"id":5702,"date":"2015-10-13T10:29:47","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T14:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=5702"},"modified":"2015-10-13T10:29:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T14:29:47","slug":"early-voting-controversy-continues-as-gop-feels-the-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=5702","title":{"rendered":"Early Voting Controversy Continues as GOP Feels the Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Yezei-nBe1w?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Board of Elections Shenanigans Documented<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Republican Board of Elections Chair is moving to restore one of the early-voting sites closed in a partisan vote after Republicans on the Board <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=5694\">consulted secretly with party leaders<\/a> and among themselves in closed meetings. Instead of opening a new early voting center in Brookville, he will propose at a special meeting to keep open the Praisner Center, which has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=5682\">high share of African-American and Latino voters<\/a>. From the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/md-politics\/montgomery-election-board-chief-retreats-on-shifts-in-early-voting-sites\/2015\/10\/12\/27d70c16-70e6-11e5-9cbb-790369643cf9_story.html\">Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bowing to three weeks of pressure from Democrats, the head of Montgomery County\u2019s Board of Elections said Monday that he will propose that the Republican-majority panel retain one of the two heavily used early-voting sites it had voted last month to move. . .<\/p>\n<p>Shalleck has scheduled a special board meeting for 5 p.m. Wednesday at the county elections offices in Gaithersburg to recommend that the Marilyn J. Praisner Community Recreation Center in Burtonsville continue as an early-voting spot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But he still wants to close the Lawton Center site in order to open one in Potomac in the name of &#8220;geographic diversity&#8221; so the Democrats aren&#8217;t buying. The Lawton Center is in one of the more densely populated areas of the County and also within walking distance of the County&#8217;s largest employment center in Bethesda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Board of Elections Shenanigans Documented The Republican Board of Elections Chair is moving to restore one of the early-voting sites closed in a partisan vote after Republicans on the Board consulted secretly with party leaders and among themselves in closed meetings. Instead of opening a new early voting center in Brookville, he will propose at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=5702\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Early Voting Controversy Continues as GOP Feels the Heat<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[227,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-early-voting","category-montgomery-county"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-1tY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5703,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5702\/revisions\/5703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}