{"id":24003,"date":"2018-04-11T04:29:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T10:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=24003"},"modified":"2018-04-11T04:29:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T10:29:37","slug":"voter-registration-deadline-extended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=24003","title":{"rendered":"Voter registration deadline extended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nebraska voters have more time on the final day of online voter registration under a bill passed April 11.<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>The deadline for online registration to vote in person on election day in Nebraska is the third Friday before the election. The deadline is 5 p.m. unless otherwise specified in state law.<\/p>\n<p>LB1038, introduced by Omaha Sen. Theresa Thibodeau at the request of the Nebraska secretary of state\u2019s office, creates a deadline of midnight on that day.<\/p>\n<p>The bill passed on a 47-0 vote and takes effect immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nebraska voters have more time on the final day of online voter registration under a bill passed April 11.<\/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-24003","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\/24003","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=24003"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24006,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24003\/revisions\/24006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}