{"id":15657,"date":"2014-11-25T23:54:24","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T23:54:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-11-25T23:54:24","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T23:54:24","slug":"we-didnt-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/25\/we-didnt-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"We Didn&#8217;t Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Turnout hits dismal records<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>Yikes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With almost every vote counted across the state, it appears about 42 percent of the state&#8217;s 17.8 million registered voters cast ballots. That shatters the previous low of 50.5 percent set in 2002, when Gov. Gray Davis won re-election over Republican businessman Bill Simon.(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/politics\/article\/Election-turnout-in-state-was-far-worse-than-5913197.php\">SF Chronicle<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was something of a perfect storm here in California. No major statewide contests and nothing national to draw voters in combined with some rather boring statewide measures. But still, yikes. <\/p>\n<p>It is hard to argue that California has made it hard to vote, but we could still make the process smoother. Same-day registration comes to mind first, but there are certainly several other measures that could be considered.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose I&#8217;m preaching to the choir here, but come on people, democracy is a use it or lose it proposition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>Turnout hits dismal records<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>Yikes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With almost every vote counted across the state, it appears about 42 percent of the state&#8217;s 17.8 million registered voters cast ballots. That shatters the previous low of 50.5 percent set in 2002, when Gov. Gray Davis won re-election over Republican businessman Bill Simon.(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/politics\/article\/Election-turnout-in-state-was-far-worse-than-5913197.php\">SF Chronicle<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was something of a perfect storm here in California. No major statewide contests and nothing national to draw voters in combined with some rather boring statewide measures. But still, yikes. <\/p>\n<p>It is hard to argue that California has made it hard to vote, but we could still make the process smoother. Same-day registration comes to mind first, but there are certainly several other measures that could be considered.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose I&#8217;m preaching to the choir here, but come on people, democracy is a use it or lose it proposition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[],"tags":[136],"class_list":["post-15657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-136"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-44x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}