{"id":331,"date":"2008-01-08T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T19:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/paper-ballots"},"modified":"2008-01-08T12:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T19:49:00","slug":"paper-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/paper-ballots","title":{"rendered":"Paper Ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since I moved to Oregon, I vote not only with a paper ballot – but by mail. Yes it takes away some of the fun of “election day” – but we talk politics for weeks as we pour over the ballots in our homes.<\/p>\n

And yes, paper ballots and mail voting can also have problems – but you don’t hear about problems with Oregon voting like you hear in other states which have those damnable new and hackable machines.<\/p>\n

So MoveOn is asking us to sign a petition to get Congress to move quickly on this issue!<\/p>\n

This Sunday’s cover story in The New York Times Magazine makes plain the threat:
The winner of the 2008 presidential election could be decided by flawed, insecure, and hackable electronic voting machines.<\/span><\/p>\n

Congress is poised to consider a new emergency paper ballots bill next week\u2014but we’ll have to convince them to act right away.<\/p>\n

I signed the petition urging local, state, and federal officials to require a paper trail for our votes.
Please join with me and others by signing the petition and HERE IS THE LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since I moved to Oregon, I vote not only with a paper ballot – but by mail. Yes it takes away some of the fun of “election day” – but we talk politics for weeks as we pour over the ballots in our homes. And yes, paper ballots and mail voting can also have problems…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[572,313,573],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-hacking-the-vote","tag-moveon-petition","tag-paper-ballots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}