{"id":2653,"date":"2009-11-10T18:56:39","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T22:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=2653"},"modified":"2009-11-10T18:56:39","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T22:56:39","slug":"new-york-village-gets-bizarre-voting-rules-to-aid-hispanics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/10\/new-york-village-gets-bizarre-voting-rules-to-aid-hispanics\/","title":{"rendered":"New York village gets bizarre voting rules to &#8216;aid Hispanics&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>CNS News     <\/em> <\/p>\n<p><strong>NY Village Gets New Voting Rules to Aid Hispanics<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>White Plains \u2013 A federal judge imposed an unusual election system on a suburban village Friday, nearly two years after finding that the existing system was unfair to Hispanics. &#8212; The village, Port Chester, is run by a mayor and six trustees. Under the new system, called cumulative voting, residents will be allowed to cast as many as six votes for one trustee candidate&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/56809\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNS News NY Village Gets New Voting Rules to Aid Hispanics White Plains \u2013 A federal judge imposed an unusual election system on a suburban village Friday, nearly two years after finding that the existing system was unfair to Hispanics. &#8212; The village, Port Chester, is run by a mayor and six trustees. Under the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653"}],"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=2653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}