{"id":6743,"date":"2024-03-06T02:52:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T02:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/06\/voters-in-new-alabama-congressional-district-given-incorrect-poll-information\/"},"modified":"2024-03-06T02:52:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T02:52:09","slug":"voters-in-new-alabama-congressional-district-given-incorrect-poll-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/06\/voters-in-new-alabama-congressional-district-given-incorrect-poll-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters in new Alabama congressional district given incorrect poll information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The district was created to strengthen Black representation after the supreme court ruled state had diluted power of Black voters<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2024\/mar\/05\/super-tuesday-primary-election-trump-haley-biden-latest-updates\">Follow Super Tuesday live updates<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/mar\/05\/super-tuesday-primary-election-live-results-delegates\">Live Super Tuesday results and delegate tracker<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More than 6,000 voters in a newly formed congressional district drawn to boost Black voting power in Alabama received postcards with incorrect voting information ahead of Tuesday\u2019s primary, alarming advocates concerned about the potential impact on a race seen as crucial to boosting Black representation and Democrats\u2019 hopes to flip the US House in November.<\/p>\n<p>James Snipes, chair of the Montgomery county board of registrars, said 6,593 county voters received postcards listing the incorrect congressional district after the county\u2019s election software misidentified some people living in Alabama\u2019s second congressional district as living in the seventh.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/mar\/05\/alabama-primary-election-polling-locations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The district was created to strengthen Black representation after the supreme court ruled state had diluted power of Black voters Follow Super Tuesday live updatesLive Super Tuesday results and delegate tracker More than 6,000 voters in a newly formed congressional district drawn to boost Black voting power in Alabama received postcards with incorrect voting information &#8230; <a title=\"Voters in new Alabama congressional district given incorrect poll information\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/06\/voters-in-new-alabama-congressional-district-given-incorrect-poll-information\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Voters in new Alabama congressional district given incorrect poll information\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}