{"id":11001,"date":"2018-01-16T21:28:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T02:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=11001"},"modified":"2018-01-16T21:29:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T02:29:04","slug":"gainesville-georgia-elections-board-scraps-plans-to-provide-ballots-in-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/16\/gainesville-georgia-elections-board-scraps-plans-to-provide-ballots-in-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"Gainesville, Georgia: Elections Board scraps plans to provide ballots in Spanish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gainesville Times<\/p>\n<div class=\"callout\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"anvil-padding-bottom\">\n<div class=\"row expanded\">\u00a0<strong>Elections Board scraps plans to provide ballots in Spanish<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"anvil-content-ajax-wrapper\">\n<article class=\"anvil-article anvil-article--style--1\">\n<header class=\"row expanded\">\n<div class=\"column small-12 medium-10 medium-text-left\">\n<div class=\"anvil-article__subtitle\"><strong>Board rescinds April 2017 vote, which chairman called an \u2018error\u2019 and \u2018negligent<\/strong>\u2019<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>January 16, 2018<\/p>\n<p>Hall County reversed course Tuesday when the Hall County Elections Board voted to scrap plans to provide ballots in Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>Board members voted Tuesday to rescind an April vote to adopt the new ballots for county and state elections amid heavy opposition from the public.<\/p>\n<p>At the same meeting, the board voted to establish a committee to study the costs, but that committee wouldn\u2019t report its findings until January 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The vote to rescind the ballots was 3-2, with the board\u2019s two Democrats against rescinding, its Republicans in favor and nonpartisan Chairman Tom Smiley also voting in favor of rescinding the 2017 vote&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gainesvilletimes.com\/news\/elections-board-scraps-plans-provide-ballots-spanish\/\">More here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gainesville Times \u00a0Elections Board scraps plans to provide ballots in Spanish Board rescinds April 2017 vote, which chairman called an \u2018error\u2019 and \u2018negligent\u2019 January 16, 2018 Hall County reversed course Tuesday when the Hall County Elections Board voted to scrap plans to provide ballots in Spanish. Board members voted Tuesday to rescind an April vote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11001"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11013,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001\/revisions\/11013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}