{"id":9149,"date":"2024-09-17T10:10:28","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T15:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2024\/09\/17\/even-if-courts-block-ken-paxtons-election-integrity-moves-the-damage-is-already-done\/"},"modified":"2024-09-17T10:10:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T15:10:28","slug":"even-if-courts-block-ken-paxtons-election-integrity-moves-the-damage-is-already-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2024\/09\/17\/even-if-courts-block-ken-paxtons-election-integrity-moves-the-damage-is-already-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Even if courts block Ken Paxton&#8217;s &#8216;election integrity&#8217; moves, the damage is already done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>           Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton\u2019s crusade to uphold \u201celection integrity\u201d is legally flimsy, not to mention motivated by voter intimidation, voting-rights advocates argue. However, even if the courts or the U.S. Justice Department shut down the Republican attorney general\u2019s efforts, some of the damage is already done, according to those same advocates. Paxton\u2019s current legal maneuvering is designed to scare progressive groups away from registering likely Democratic voters ahead of the November election, and it\u2019s also likely to keep some of those same voters away from the polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton\u2019s crusade to uphold \u201celection integrity\u201d is legally flimsy, not to mention motivated by voter intimidation, voting-rights advocates argue. However, even if the courts or the U.S. Justice Department shut down the Republican attorney general\u2019s efforts, some of the damage is already done, according to those same advocates. Paxton\u2019s current legal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}