{"id":8779,"date":"2012-04-27T15:06:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T19:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=8779"},"modified":"2012-04-27T16:26:46","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T20:26:46","slug":"advocating-voter-modernization-to-a-fox-news-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=8779","title":{"rendered":"advocating voter modernization to a FOX News audience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In lieu of a substantive blog post today, here&#8217;s a link to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2012\/04\/27\/why-gop-future-could-depend-on-romney-ability-to-connect-with-young-people\/\">op-ed<\/a> on<br \/>\nFoxNews.com, &#8220;Why the GOP&#8217;s future could depend on Romney&#8217;s ability to connect with young people.&#8221; I float an argument for modernizing the voting system that I mean (sincerely, and not just for tactical reasons) to appeal to a Fox-News-reading audience:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most states prevent eligible voters from registering during the very period when interest in a campaign reaches its height, the last month before an election. What business would require you to sign up for its service months in advance and then appear in person at a particular location during limited hours to obtain it?<\/p>\n<p>That is no way to encourage political participation in a great democracy, and it\u2019s one reason that U.S. turnout is usually the lowest among all the developed democratic countries in the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In lieu of a substantive blog post today, here&#8217;s a link to my op-ed on FoxNews.com, &#8220;Why the GOP&#8217;s future could depend on Romney&#8217;s ability to connect with young people.&#8221; I float an argument for modernizing the voting system that I mean (sincerely, and not just for tactical reasons) to appeal to a Fox-News-reading audience: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-election"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8779","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=8779"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8788,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8779\/revisions\/8788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}