{"id":462,"date":"2007-09-06T22:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=462"},"modified":"2007-09-06T22:55:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T21:55:00","slug":"voting-should-be-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/voting-should-be-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting should be hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/binkley27\/292239798\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/99\/292239798_b7b2c78bfe_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/binkley27\/292239798\/\">Old School Voting.  The way it should be.<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/binkley27\/\">Just-Us-3<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<p>There was an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/opinion\/main.jhtml?xml=\/opinion\/2007\/09\/05\/do0505.xml\">interesting comment<\/a> in The Telegraph a couple of days ago.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Hannan rightly points out that &#8220;for 10 years, ministers have made voting progressively more convenient. They have introduced postal votes, telephone votes and e-votes. They have placed polling stations in supermarkets. They have sought to enfranchise felons, lunatics and foreigners. Yet the only people whom they have succeeded in encouraging are fraudsters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He then goes on to suggest that perhaps it would actually engage people more if voting became harder again.  Do read the whole thing &ndash; there are several good points in it!<\/p>\n<p>I do tend to agree with the main gist.  Democracy is about people taking responsibility for their own future, not about having lots of people tick random boxes.<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old School Voting. The way it should be. Originally uploaded by Just-Us-3 There was an interesting comment in The Telegraph a couple of days ago. Mr. Hannan rightly points out that &#8220;for 10 years, ministers have made voting progressively more convenient. They have introduced postal votes, telephone votes and e-votes. They have placed polling stations in supermarkets. They have sought to enfranchise felons, lunatics and foreigners. Yet the only people whom they have succeeded in encouraging are fraudsters.&#8221; He then goes on to suggest that perhaps it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,159,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-en","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}