{"id":30667,"date":"2023-11-07T15:48:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T20:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=30667"},"modified":"2023-11-07T15:50:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T20:50:30","slug":"synchronize-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=30667","title":{"rendered":"synchronize elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I voted today in Cambridge, MA, but I wish that local elections were synchronized with national ones. Turnout would be far higher, and the electorate would be more representative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, Jessica S. Lieberman, and I published an op-ed in the Boston Globe today, making that point. It was nicely timed to coincide with an election day in an off-year. It&#8217;s entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2023\/11\/07\/opinion\/elections-even-years-voter-turnout-massachusetts\/\">Massachusetts should move local elections to even-numbered years<\/a>. It&#8217;s behind a paywall, but the photo of the print edition that accompanies this post should be legible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I voted today in Cambridge, MA, but I wish that local elections were synchronized with national ones. Turnout would be far higher, and the electorate would be more representative. Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, Jessica S. Lieberman, and I published an op-ed in the Boston Globe today, making that point. It was nicely timed to coincide with an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30667"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30672,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30667\/revisions\/30672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}