{"id":535,"date":"2006-11-08T04:52:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T04:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/11\/08\/2006-11-8-houseblogging-special-election-coverage-html\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T01:28:29","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:28:29","slug":"2006-11-8-houseblogging-special-election-coverage-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/2006-11-8-houseblogging-special-election-coverage-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Houseblogging: Special Election Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Let&#8217;s start with this. That electronic voting machine was the most convoluted gizmo I&#8217;ve seen in a very long time. I suppose the absurd level of <i>Are You Sure That You&#8217;re Sure<\/i> Syndrome is necessary for people who just aren&#8217;t all that sure their votes have been counted. But still, I was asked three times on the screen, then the paper printout scrolled behind a window. And scrolled. And scrolled. Even after all of that, I could change it again.<\/p>\n<p>Absurd!<\/p>\n<p>I feel not disenfranchised! Or something.<\/p>\n<p>Your pal,<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s start with this. That electronic voting machine was the most convoluted gizmo I&#8217;ve seen in a very long time. I suppose the absurd level of Are You Sure That You&#8217;re Sure Syndrome is necessary for people who just aren&#8217;t all that sure their votes have been counted. But still, I was asked three times &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/2006-11-8-houseblogging-special-election-coverage-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Houseblogging: Special Election Coverage&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,6],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-elections","tag-house"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1367,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions\/1367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}