{"id":34121,"date":"2022-11-04T15:46:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T20:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=34121"},"modified":"2022-11-04T15:46:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T20:46:58","slug":"paper-ballots-this-weeks-reader-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=34121","title":{"rendered":"Paper Ballots This week&#8217;s reader column"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/duluthreader.com\/uploads\/image\/article\/123\/302\/123302\/header_1080x\/21782_screen_shot_2022_10_31_at_2_45_44_pm.png\" alt=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It begins:<\/p>\n<p>Last week I noted that in 1860 even in the Southern states, where Abe Lincoln was kept off the presidential ballot, no one cried \u201cfraud.\u201d No one disputed the election. Angry states simply seceded.<br \/>\nThe voting machine was invented in 1881, the same time as states began adopting the secret ballot.<br \/>\nBy the time I cast my first ballot in 1972, drawing a curtain around myself like the Wizard of Oz with the pull of a lever, the huge clunky machines were old hat. I\u2019m sure my wife brought our kids in with her behind the curtain to teach them their civic duty by her good example.<br \/>\nEventually the monster machines gave way&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2022\/11\/03\/123302-paper-ballots\">Read the rest<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It begins: Last week I noted that in 1860 even in the Southern states, where Abe Lincoln was kept off the presidential ballot, no&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,146,90,31,127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34122,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34121\/revisions\/34122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}