{"id":9880,"date":"2013-02-20T11:26:01","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T19:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9880"},"modified":"2013-02-20T15:30:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T23:30:34","slug":"a-reminder-of-democracys-gold-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9880","title":{"rendered":"A Reminder of ‘Democracy’s Gold Standard’…"},"content":{"rendered":"

The good folks at Right About Now<\/a> have decided to immortalize a quote from this September, 2009 op-ed of mine<\/a> detailing my call for pilot projects around the country to develop much-needed data and benchmarks for what we describe around here as “Democracy’s Gold Standard”: Hand-marked paper ballots, publicly counted by hand at the precinct<\/i> on Election Night, with the public, all political parties and even video cameras rolling, and results posted at the precinct before ballots are moved anywhere…<\/p>\n

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You can click on the cool graphic to enlarge it if you have any trouble reading it. And, about that quote, I totally agree! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the supposedly “non-partisan” commission being convened [PDF]<\/a> at the behest of the President — and being co-chaired by an incredibly partisan former “Swift Boat” GOP operative<\/a> — in order to “fix”<\/a> some of the problems which reared their ugly heads again during the 2012 election, such as long lines, difficulty in registration or casting overseas absentees ballots, is not<\/i> currently set to review the extraordinary problems (here’s just one recent example<\/a>) that our nation has with vote tabulation in this country, much less explore the need for fully public, fully transparent, fully citizen-overseeable election result tabulation in a nation that supposedly prides itself on government of the people, by the people and for the people.<\/i><\/p>\n

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The good folks at Right About Now have decided to immortalize a quote from this September, 2009 op-ed of mine detailing my call for pilot projects around the country to develop much-needed data and benchmarks for what we describe around here as “Democracy’s Gold Standard”: Hand-marked paper ballots, publicly counted by hand at the precinct […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239,89,28,147],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-media-appearance","category-election-reform","category-lava"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9880"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=9880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}