{"id":1695,"date":"2011-11-08T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2011-11-08T01:25:59","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T06:25:59","slug":"the-votes-they-are-a-changin%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2011\/the-votes-they-are-a-changin%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"The Votes, They are a Changin\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/110811_0522_TheVotesThe1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"430\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A new voting system may be coming to a town or county near you this election season. Instead of the traditional method of voting for one candidate in a contest, in a manner which seems natural and inseparable from our current conception of the word, some towns&#8217; ballets will be ranking candidates instead.<\/p>\n<p>Voters will have the chance to rank their favorite contenders in a manner which will reduce potentially costly run-offs for local governments.<\/p>\n<p>For all the details, reasons, causes, and implications, check out the article by Freakonomics <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freakonomics.com\/2011\/11\/03\/in-some-elections-second-best-might-be-good-enough\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new voting system may be coming to a town or county near you this election season. Instead of the traditional method of voting for one candidate in a contest, in a manner which seems natural and inseparable from our current conception of the word, some towns&#8217; ballets will be ranking candidates instead. Voters will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1699,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions\/1699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}