{"id":131954,"date":"2016-11-06T22:53:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T05:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/06\/the-good-news-and-bad-news-of-long-voter-lines.html"},"modified":"2016-11-06T22:53:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T05:53:44","slug":"the-good-news-and-bad-news-of-long-voter-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/06\/the-good-news-and-bad-news-of-long-voter-lines.html","title":{"rendered":"The Good News and Bad News of long voter lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good News? A lot of people really, truly want to vote, and are willing to deal with considerable inconvenience to do so. <\/p>\n<p>Bad News? A lot of these places will close before these people can vote, a lot of people were probably discouraged by extremely long lines, a lot of these long lines could have been avoided by election officials, and a lot of these long lines seem to have been instead intentionally designed to be long and discouraging.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.vox.com\/presidential-election\/2016\/11\/6\/13542680\/there-are-4000-people-in-a-half-mile-voting-line-in-cincinnati-today-this-isn-t-okay'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/rG4gdk5Htcpj4IENKKzDKks17LiOD_z_Xl1wneACXjyJ_4Ngt1cARTsiW2jGXqIjuAGLpfBHc9YMrM4E8rv7ZRJPkaEM6ekbXFM8W9ipWjXh7JOBKxCyb6mkzvI3j02E91bvFwQy7eGKshqFNI7F-L-4uxa0cgudYGiKGaR15wwElREblZ8SW4mAOGNJxuSp-AfiwzIJvVYWvCV7tGXvVZNEkkizM9MEdTMWPTEB_7FkXgQcVO6t7CVa0_FRUvUIGoLuyj8KW3o=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.vox.com\/presidential-election\/2016\/11\/6\/13542680\/there-are-4000-people-in-a-half-mile-voting-line-in-cincinnati-today-this-isn-t-okay'>There are 4,000 people in a half-mile voting line in Cincinnati today. This isn&rsquo;t okay.<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nLines this long shouldn&rsquo;t happen.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/Sj7DjQfgXNY'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good News? A lot of people really, truly want to vote, and are willing to deal with considerable inconvenience to do so. Bad News? A lot of these places will close before these people can vote, a lot of people were probably discouraged by extremely long lines, a lot of these long lines could have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/06\/the-good-news-and-bad-news-of-long-voter-lines.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Good News and Bad News of long voter lines&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46143,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/29\/i-want-you-to-not-vote.html","url_meta":{"origin":131954,"position":0},"title":"I Want You to NOT Vote!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 29-Oct-14 11:41am","format":false,"excerpt":"And, yeah, it's rabidly partisan, but it's darned funny.And, yeah, also true: when you don't vote, you let someone else take charge (and that's a message that cuts across partisan lines). Originally shared by +Les Jenkins: It's funny because it's true. View on Google+","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":130416,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/14\/this-sort-of-lines-up-with-my-thoughts-on-the-democratic-nomination.html","url_meta":{"origin":131954,"position":1},"title":"This sort of lines up with my thoughts on the Democratic nomination","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 14-Apr-16 2:02am","format":false,"excerpt":"I really don't see Bernie as ready to govern, and I don't think he's as strong a candidate against the GOP in November as we need. But the policy items he's bringing, vocally, to the table are all necessary to hear and to influence the national (and Democratic) conversation. 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I can't think of a single legitimate reason or explanation for Blacks and Hispanics to have had to wait 60% longer (over 20 minutes vs over 13 minutes)\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":38460,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/14\/gerrymanders-racial-and-partisan-and-both.html","url_meta":{"origin":131954,"position":4},"title":"Gerrymanders, racial and partisan and both","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 14-Aug-13 11:22am","format":false,"excerpt":"While I find gerrymandering for partisan purposes to be reprehensible (yes, when Dems do it, too), I'm not sure it rises to a Constitutional issue except in extreme edge cases, and to treat it as such would invite a lot of litigation. \u00a0(I'm unconvinced that districts cannot be drawn relatively\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":49865,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/17\/set-up-the-vote.html","url_meta":{"origin":131954,"position":5},"title":"Set Up the Vote","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 17-Mar-15 1:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I would consider proportional voting for President f it were done on a national basis; while it's being voted for only in those GOP-led states that have tended to vote majority Democrat in presidential elections, it's clearly just manipulation the rules in one's favor.But I'd rather see spotty state proportional\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}