{"id":1001225,"date":"2008-06-04T07:47:01","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T12:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1001225"},"modified":"2008-06-04T07:47:01","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T12:47:01","slug":"you-cant-fool-all-of-the-people-all-of-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/politics\/2008\/06\/04\/you-cant-fool-all-of-the-people-all-of-the-time\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can&#8217;t Fool All of the People All of the Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/printedition\/front\/la-me-props4-2008jun04,0,6925163.story\">L.A. Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<h5>Proposition 98<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li> Yes 39.1%<\/li>\n<li> No 60.9% <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Proposition 99<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Yes 62.4%<\/li>\n<li> No 37.6% <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Prop 99 was actually weaker than I would have liked&#8211;I would have preferred a measure that banned eminent domain for private development, period, not just for owner occupied residences&#8211;but 98 was just over the top.<\/p>\n<p>Of course now we get to miss the fun of watching the courts sort out the mess that would have resulted if both had passed, since they actively contradicted each other.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I also got to try electronic voting for the first time. The machines here in Irvine had voter verified paper ballots, and I think they were a definite improvement over the mechanical machines I&#8217;ve used in the past (and never trusted). However user interface wise they were a disaster. You had to use a scroll wheel to move to the candidate of your choice, which was very nonintuitive. It was easy to miss a ballot completely, and hard to vote for only three candidates when you were allowed to vote for six. In fact, initially I wasn&#8217;t sure that was even possible. Write-in candidates had to be entered by scrolling the wheel  around an alphabet to spell out a name. Surely we can do better than this? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the L.A. Times: Proposition 98 Yes 39.1% No 60.9% Proposition 99 Yes 62.4% No 37.6% Prop 99 was actually weaker than I would have liked&#8211;I would have preferred a measure that banned eminent domain for private development, period, not just for owner occupied residences&#8211;but 98 was just over the top. Of course now we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}