{"id":22739,"date":"2020-03-14T17:48:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T00:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=22739"},"modified":"2020-03-15T17:49:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T00:49:43","slug":"georgia-to-postpone-primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=22739","title":{"rendered":"Georgia to postpone primaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia has become the second state to delay its presidential primaries over coronavirus fears, a day after\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/louisiana\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Louisiana<\/a>\u00a0also pushed back voting in primaries.<\/p>\n<p>In-person early voting, which began statewide 2 March, will be halted and the election that was scheduled for 24 March will be moved to 19 May, when Georgia\u2019s other 2020 primary elections are being held,\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/state-of-georgia\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Georgia<\/a>\u00a0secretary of state Brad Raffensperger said in a statement on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to public safety, one of the biggest considerations was the\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/14\/coronavirus-covid-19-q-and-a-protect-ourselves-vaccine\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">risk the virus posed<\/a>\u00a0to poll workers, who are often older, election officials said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvents are moving rapidly and my highest priority is protecting the health of our poll workers, and the community at large,\u201d Raffensperger said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia has become the second state&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22740,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22739\/revisions\/22740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}