{"id":1385,"date":"2003-09-07T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-08T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/09\/07\/total-recall-all-the-time\/"},"modified":"2003-09-07T22:15:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-08T02:15:00","slug":"total-recall-all-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/07\/total-recall-all-the-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Total Recall, All the Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1000'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"304\" height=\"210\">\n<div align=\"justify\">      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/recal.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"223\">\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><font color=\"#990000\" size=\"+1\">Universal Studios Sufferage<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a radical yet logical idea. Since we are seemingly<br \/>\n        doomed to be bombarded with all of the bombast and banality of the California<br \/>\n        recall<br \/>\n        election, we should all be allowed to vote in it. Given the preeminent<br \/>\n        role of California in our national media, entertainment and economic<br \/>\n        life, the office of Governor has tremendous influence in all of our lives,<br \/>\n        and so we should have some influence in his election. We are all Californians,<br \/>\n        in a way.\n    <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<p>OK, so maybe we shouldn&#8217;t have as much say as people who<br \/>\n        actually LIVE in California, but maybe they could give the rest of us<br \/>\n        a half vote each. We could vote over the internet, making it easy to<br \/>\n        keep track with real-time, on-screen graphics as the titanic struggle<br \/>\n        comes to a head and a national audience votes the pretenders off the<br \/>\n        island, leaving only the one true Governor standing.<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty more clever ideas where that one came from, designed to encourage<br \/>\na<br \/>\nrenaissance of participatory democracy. Next week I&#8217;ll tell you about my idea<br \/>\nthat all shrink-wrapped<br \/>\ncopies of the Windows OS should include a certificate for one share of Microsoft<br \/>\nstock, so any user who wants can vote in the annual shareholders meetings!<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universal Studios Sufferage &nbsp; Here&#8217;s a radical yet logical idea. Since we are seemingly doomed to be bombarded with all of the bombast and banality of the California recall election, we should all be allowed to vote in it. Given &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/07\/total-recall-all-the-time\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}