{"id":7737,"date":"2018-10-08T20:10:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T00:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/10\/09\/increasing-voter-turnout\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T19:40:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T00:40:23","slug":"increasing-voter-turnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/increasing-voter-turnout\/","title":{"rendered":"Increasing voter turnout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Furman students, along with Politics and International Affairs Professor David Fleming, is using a grassroots effort to inspire other students to register to vote. <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/local\/2018\/10\/07\/dinsvote-getting-new-voters-registered-fumaan\/1267801002\/\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/em><\/strong> wrote about that DinsVote effort, which includes on-campus voter drives in preparation for the November mid-term election. The effort is an outgrowth of the effort in 2016 when a group of Furman students sued and won the right to register to vote in Greenville County as regular residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Furman students, along with Politics and International Affairs Professor David Fleming, is using a grassroots effort to inspire other students to register to vote. The Greenville News [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}