{"id":134365,"date":"2020-03-01T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/03\/01\/aposusing-a-sledgehammer-to-crack-a-nutapos-voter-id-critics-question-whether-plans-for-nationwide-rollout-will-cause-more-harm-than-good\/"},"modified":"2020-03-01T13:12:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T12:12:00","slug":"aposusing-a-sledgehammer-to-crack-a-nutapos-voter-id-critics-question-whether-plans-for-nationwide-rollout-will-cause-more-harm-than-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=134365","title":{"rendered":"&amp;apos;Using a sledgehammer to crack a nut&amp;apos;: Voter ID critics question whether plans for nationwide rollout will cause more harm than good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opponents of the nationwide rollout of voter ID question whether the policy could prevent citizens from exercising their democratic right, writes Zoe Tidman<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/voter-id-court-of-appeal-neil-coughlan-leigh-day-cabinet-office-a9278141.html\" target=\"_blank\">&amp;apos;Using a sledgehammer to crack a nut&amp;apos;: Voter ID critics question whether plans for nationwide rollout will cause more harm than good<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opponents of the nationwide rollout of voter ID question whether the policy could prevent citizens from exercising their democratic right, writes Zoe Tidman Via: &amp;apos;Using a sledgehammer to crack a nut&amp;apos;: Voter ID critics question whether plans for nationwide rollout will cause more harm than good<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}