{"id":1097,"date":"2008-12-17T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T22:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/12\/17\/voting-101\/"},"modified":"2008-12-17T14:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T22:36:00","slug":"voting-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/12\/17\/voting-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml'>You wouldn&#8217;t think that correctly filling out a paper ballot would be such a challenge.  Sure, you only do it once every couple of years, but the instructions are printed right there.  And didn&#8217;t we all learn to color inside the lines back in grade school?  These pictures of <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/collections\/special\/2008\/campaign\/results\/mn\/recount\/ballots\/\">actual challenged ballots from the Minnesota Senate recount<\/a> make me sad.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, if you haven&#8217;t seen <i>Recount<\/i>, the HBO movie about the 2000 US Presidential election, it&#8217;s definitely worth a rental.  And the screenplay was written by a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Danny_Strong\">superstar<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>~CKL<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You wouldn&#8217;t think that correctly filling out a paper ballot would be such a challenge. Sure, you only do it once every couple of years, but the instructions are printed right there. And didn&#8217;t we all learn to color inside&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}