{"id":92,"date":"2008-10-09T22:59:29","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T03:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/?p=92"},"modified":"2008-10-09T22:59:29","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T03:59:29","slug":"disbelief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/2008\/10\/09\/disbelief\/","title":{"rendered":"Disbelief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I work with big, complicated databases all day, and I find it incomprehensible that any so critical as the voter registration databases could be managed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/09\/us\/politics\/09voting.html?ref=us&amp;pagewanted=all\">so incompetently<\/a>, in a way that encompasses so much belief in unreliable records and so much disbelief of human beings.<\/p>\n<p>Massive federal allocations to the states, conditioned on massive upgrades and improvemets in voter registration technology and election-day voting technology, seem like no-brainers, even if more states adopt Oregon&#8217;s brilliant&#8211; and brilliantly successful&#8211; strategy of conducting all elections <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sos.state.or.us\/elections\/HAVA\/votingguide\/votebymail.html\">by mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I work with big, complicated databases all day, and I find it incomprehensible that any so critical as the voter registration databases could be managed so incompetently, in a way that encompasses so much belief in unreliable records and so much disbelief of human beings. Massive federal allocations to the states, conditioned on massive upgrades [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":283,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[415,608],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}