{"id":105,"date":"2006-11-07T15:27:49","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T22:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/?p=105"},"modified":"2006-11-07T15:27:49","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T22:27:49","slug":"vote-or-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"VOTE OR DIE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I voted. Did you?<\/p>\n<p>If so, bully for you!<\/p>\n<p>If not, you can fuck right off.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago has these fancy new touchscreen machines, which I was all sorts of against, until I heard on some AM talk show (been on a big AM radio kick lately) that these particular machines had a built-in paper trail. After you reviewed your choices on-screen, it printed a paper receipt that you got to review through a window. After approving it and casting your ballot, it scrolled into the bowels of the machine. Neat. Apparently it&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sequoiavote.com\/photo.php?photo=SequoiaEdgeWithVeriVotePrinter.jpg&#038;title=Sequoia%20AVC%20Edge%20With%20VeriVote%20Printer\">Sequoia AVC Edge w\/VeriVote Printer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My final votes are between myself and the Cook County Election Board, but suffice it to say that I had a pretty clear method of voting. I voted as you might expect someone of my age, location and socioeconomic group might with a few caveats. All those running unopposed got a saucy write-in candidate. Any incumbent Republicans got voted against, either by Green Party (where available) or Democrats. All judges with male-sounding names got voted against and all females got voted for. I like some churn in my gummint.<\/p>\n<p>You know what else I like? WAFFLES.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I voted. Did you? If so, bully for you! If not, you can fuck right off. Chicago has these fancy new touchscreen machines, which I was all sorts of against, until I heard on some AM talk show (been on a big AM radio kick lately) that these particular machines had a built-in paper trail. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}