{"id":1594122,"date":"2024-04-06T15:39:56","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T15:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=9bfcea8201305a84c2c845cc3f0f753f"},"modified":"2024-04-06T15:39:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T15:39:56","slug":"amid-threats-to-workers-and-voters-states-move-to-restrict-guns-at-voting-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/04\/06\/amid-threats-to-workers-and-voters-states-move-to-restrict-guns-at-voting-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid Threats to Workers and Voters, States Move to Restrict Guns at Voting Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A growing number of states are considering restrictions on guns near voting sites, a move that some lawmakers and voting rights groups hope will better protect not just voters, but election administrators and poll workers, from threats of violence and intimidation during a fraught election year. Only about a dozen states and Washington, D.C., completely prohibit people from carrying a gun &mdash; either...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/amid-threats-to-workers-and-voters-states-move-to-restrict-guns-at-voting-sites\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/amid-threats-to-workers-and-voters-states-move-to-restrict-guns-at-voting-sites\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 6 states have introduced laws this year to ban firearms at polling sites or expand existing restrictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10045,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39029,50,15221,914,4,25555,1231,3672],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10045"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1594122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1594123,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594122\/revisions\/1594123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1594122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1594122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1594122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}