{"id":27,"date":"2004-11-08T15:07:04","date_gmt":"2004-11-08T15:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/fp-wp\/?p=27"},"modified":"2004-11-08T15:07:04","modified_gmt":"2004-11-08T15:07:04","slug":"election-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"Election standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has an excellent editorial <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/11\/07\/opinion\/07sun1.html?ex=1257570000&#038;en=90db2327d7513607&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland\">outlining ten things we can do to improve elections<\/a> in this country. They include such obvious measures as allowing a holiday for voting, improving wait times,  insuring audit capacities for all machines, and so on. Read the thing to get it all.<br \/>\nNothing will come of it, I suspect, because not enough people in this country seem to care whether our elections are fair and transparent, and too many politicians stand to gain from the continuing ability to cheat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has an excellent editorial outlining ten things we can do to improve elections in this country. They include such obvious measures as allowing a holiday for voting, improving wait times, insuring audit capacities for all machines, and so on. Read the thing to get it all. Nothing will come of it, I suspect, because not enough people in this country seem to care whether our elections are fair and transparent, and too many politicians stand to gain from the continuing ability to cheat.<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=27\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p13tCM-r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}