{"id":46165,"date":"2020-03-15T10:30:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T14:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=46165"},"modified":"2020-03-15T10:31:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T14:31:02","slug":"georgia-election-officials-are-postponing-presidential-primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2020\/03\/georgia-election-officials-are-postponing-presidential-primaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia election officials are postponing presidential primaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/download-2.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/download-2.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/download-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/download-2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/download-2-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Georgia election officials are postponing the state\u2019s March 24 presidential primaries until May because of fears over the coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Georgia&#8217;s secretary of state said that in-person early voting will be halted and the election will be moved to May 19, when Georgia\u2019s other 2020 primary elections are being held.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The action followed Republican Gov. Brian Kemp\u2019s signature of an emergency declaration that unlocked sweeping powers to fight COVID-19. On Friday, Louisiana became the first state to push back its presidential primaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kemp said the number of cases in Georgia caused by the new coronavirus rose to 66 Saturday from 42 on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia election officials are postponing the state\u2019s March 24 presidential primaries until May because of fears over the coronavirus. Georgia&#8217;s secretary of state said that in-person early voting will be&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":46166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}