{"id":224741,"date":"2021-07-02T08:50:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T08:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=208006"},"modified":"2021-07-02T08:50:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T08:50:57","slug":"voting-rights-should-include-the-right-to-vote-for-who-you-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/07\/02\/voting-rights-should-include-the-right-to-vote-for-who-you-want\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting Rights Should Include the Right to Vote for Who You Want"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voting rights are not fully realized if they are only about the getting into the polling booth to cast a vote. Voting rights are also about the right to vote for who you want once you get to vote. Otherwise, we have will still have the kind of electoral system that has prevailed since Boss  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/07\/02\/voting-rights-should-include-the-right-to-vote-for-who-you-want\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/07\/02\/voting-rights-should-include-the-right-to-vote-for-who-you-want\/\">Voting Rights Should Include the Right to Vote for Who You Want<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/07\/02\/voting-rights-should-include-the-right-to-vote-for-who-you-want\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting rights are not fully realized if they are only about the getting into the polling booth to cast a vote. Voting rights are also about the right to vote for who you want once you get to vote. Otherwise, we have will still have the kind of electora&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224741"}],"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\/2578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224954,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224741\/revisions\/224954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}