{"id":40766,"date":"2016-10-05T17:10:15","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T17:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=40766"},"modified":"2016-10-05T17:10:15","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T17:10:15","slug":"acc-making-it-easier-for-austinites-to-register-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2016\/10\/05\/acc-making-it-easier-for-austinites-to-register-to-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC making it easier for Austinites to register to vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KXAN:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kxan.com\/2016\/09\/26\/acc-making-it-easier-for-austinites-to-register-to- vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ACC making it easier for Austinites to register to vote<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 10\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>AUSTIN (KXAN) \u2014 With the prime-time debate airing Monday night, Austin Community College wants to remind Austinites to register to vote.<br \/>\nJoining us in the KXAN studio is Dr. Molly Beth Malcolm with ACC.<br \/>\n\u201cAustin Community College is committed to reinforcing the importance of civic participation among our students,\u201d said Malcolm. \u201cVoting is the most basic way our citizens can have a voice. We encourage all of our eligible students to get registered and exercise their rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With busy student schedules, an ACC event is making it easier for them to get involved in politics. The college is hosting a rally on Tuesday in honor of National Voter Registration Day. There will be set-ups in place to help get people registered. You can register to vote, check your voter status, and obtain information on what is needed to cast a vote in Texas. The rally is at the ACC Highland Campus at 11 a.m. It is free and open to the public.<br \/>\nIn order to increase civic engagement, ACC\u2019s Student Government Association is hosting a U.S. Presidential Debate viewing Monday, Sept. 26, at 8 p.m. at Highland Campus\u2019 Social Staircase, 6101 Airport Blvd. The public is encouraged to attend.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KXAN:\u00a0ACC making it easier for Austinites to register to vote AUSTIN (KXAN) \u2014 With the prime-time debate airing Monday night, Austin Community College wants to remind Austinites to register to vote. Joining us in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2016\/10\/05\/acc-making-it-easier-for-austinites-to-register-to-vote\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3556,"featured_media":33605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[487,600,1144,90],"class_list":["post-40766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acc-in-the-news","tag-acc-votes","tag-election","tag-molly-beth-malcolm","tag-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}