{"id":23753,"date":"2018-03-28T10:36:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T16:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=23753"},"modified":"2018-03-28T10:36:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T16:36:06","slug":"extended-time-for-voter-registration-advanced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=23753","title":{"rendered":"Extended time for voter registration advanced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nebraska voters would have more time on the final day of online voter registration under a bill advanced from general file March 27.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"22811\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=22811\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SenThibodeau_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"SenThibodeau_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Theresa Thibodeau&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SenThibodeau_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22811 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SenThibodeau_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Theresa Thibodeau\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SenThibodeau_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SenThibodeau_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Currently, the deadline for online registration to vote in person on election day is the third Friday before the election. LB1038, introduced by Omaha Sen. Theresa Thibodeau at the request of the Nebraska secretary of state\u2019s office, would create a deadline of midnight on that day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLB1038 extends the online voter registration deadline from 5 p.m. to prior to midnight on the deadline date,\u201d Thibodeau said.<\/p>\n<p>The bill advanced 42-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nebraska voters would have more time on the final day of online voter registration under a bill advanced from general file March 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[242],"class_list":["post-23753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-military-and-veterans-affairs","tag-sen-theresa-thibodeau"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23754,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23753\/revisions\/23754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}