{"id":2565,"date":"2012-11-06T20:42:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T00:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/?p=2565"},"modified":"2024-09-12T13:08:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T17:08:41","slug":"obstructing-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2012\/11\/06\/obstructing-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Obstructing Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Normally when I vote, I head to the polls, wait my turn, and then cast my ballot. This year, though, I&#8217;m going to mix things up. I keep hearing about voter intimidation in some states, and it sounds like something I&#8217;d like to learn more about. So today I plan on the following forms of intimidation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Standing extremely close to the person in front of me in line. While doing so I will alternate between ignoring their annoyed looks and moving closer each time they attempt to create more space, and glowering at them with my meanest look possible.<\/li>\n<li>Heckling other voters as I would do an opponent shooting free throws. Screaming, yelling, jumping up-and-down, waving my arms, etc. Anything to distract them from the task at hand. <\/li>\n<li>Stepping in front of people when it&#8217;s their turn to vote. Shuffle left, shuffle right, just stay in their way. After a few moments of that I&#8217;ll stop, turn to an imaginary camera, laugh, and say, \u201cAnd that&#8217;s the scene here, Chuck. Back to you in the studio.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don&#8217;t understand why so many people talk about voter intimidation as if it&#8217;s a bad thing. It sounds like a lot of fun!<\/p>\n<p>\u2181<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally when I vote, I head to the polls, wait my turn, and then cast my ballot. This year, though, I&#8217;m going to mix things up. I keep hearing about voter intimidation in some states, and it sounds like something I&#8217;d like to learn more about. So today I plan on the following forms of intimidation: Standing extremely close to the person in front of me in line. While doing so I will alternate between ignoring their annoyed looks and moving closer each time they attempt to create more space, and glowering at them with my meanest look possible. Heckling other voters as I would do an opponent shooting free throws. Screaming, yelling, jumping up-and-down, waving my arms, etc. Anything to distract them from the task at hand. Stepping in front of people when it&#8217;s their turn to vote. Shuffle left, shuffle right, just stay in their way. After a few moments of that I&#8217;ll stop, turn to an imaginary camera, laugh, and say, \u201cAnd that&#8217;s the scene here, Chuck. Back to you in the studio.\u201d I don&#8217;t understand why so many people talk about voter intimidation as if it&#8217;s a bad thing. It sounds like a lot of fun! \u2181<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[119,32],"class_list":["post-2565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-humor","tag-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14621,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions\/14621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}