{"id":11644,"date":"2018-05-08T18:22:54","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T23:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=11644"},"modified":"2018-05-08T18:25:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T23:25:51","slug":"know-your-voter-rights-and-where-to-get-help-if-your-vote-is-challenged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/know-your-voter-rights-and-where-to-get-help-if-your-vote-is-challenged\/","title":{"rendered":"Know your voter rights \u2013\u00a0and where to get help if your vote is challenged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/let-people-vote.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/let-people-vote.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11645\" \/><\/a>Several states are holding local elections today. It&#8217;s important to know what your voter rights are and where to seek help if you feel that anyone has blocked you from exercising your Constitutional right to vote. <\/p>\n<p>A good place to turn for information about your rights is the <a href=\"http:\/\/lwv.org\">League of Women Voters<\/a>. If you have questions about voting issues call their voting rights hotline website <a href=\"http:\/\/vote411.org\">Vote411.org<\/a>. Visit the website or<\/p>\n<p>Call one of these national hotlines:<br \/>\n1-866-OUR-VOTE (866-687-8683)<br \/>\n1-888-VE-Y-VOTA (en Espa\u00f1ol)<br \/>\n1-888-API-VOTE (Asian multilingual assistance)<br \/>\n1-844-418-1682 (Arabic)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some specific information they shared about New Jersey voter rights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1st time voters who register in person may be asked to show ID.<\/li>\n<li>1st time voters who register by mail can satisfy the ID requirement by filling in their Social Security Number or NJ Driver&#8217;s License number on the registration form<\/li>\n<li>At the polls, voters who have already not satisfied the ID requirement can be asked to show proof of address. That proof can be a piece of mail addressed to the voter.<\/li>\n<li>If you cannot satisfy the ID requirement, you can ask for a provisional ballot. Lack of ID cannot stop you from voting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several states are holding local elections today. It&#8217;s important to know what your voter rights are and where to seek help if you feel that anyone has blocked you from exercising your Constitutional right to vote. A good place to turn for information about your rights is the League of Women Voters. If you have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/know-your-voter-rights-and-where-to-get-help-if-your-vote-is-challenged\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Know your voter rights \u2013\u00a0and where to get help if your vote is challenged&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,563,1192],"tags":[2667,699],"class_list":["post-11644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-justice","category-politics-2","tag-id-requirements","tag-voting-rights"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11644"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11649,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11644\/revisions\/11649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}