{"id":1706,"date":"2003-09-22T12:10:40","date_gmt":"2003-09-22T19:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/09\/california-voting\/"},"modified":"2003-09-22T12:10:40","modified_gmt":"2003-09-22T19:10:40","slug":"california-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/22\/california-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"California voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThe absentee ballot for Santa Clara county, CA is a punch card with numbers on the holes. Since I don&#8217;t have my own Pollstar machine, I had to punch the holes out with a pen, and remove the hanging chads by hand, per the instructions. I can see that this might be hard for an illiterate to figure out, but they do give instructions in many languages and stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Since there was no obsolete voting machine involved, the Ninth Circuit shouldn&#8217;t have a problem with this voting technique, eh?\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The absentee ballot for Santa Clara county, CA is a punch card with numbers on the holes. Since I don&#8217;t have my own Pollstar machine, I had to punch the holes out with a pen, and remove the hanging chads by hand, per the instructions. I can see that this might be hard for an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/22\/california-voting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;California voting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-rw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}