{"id":1864,"date":"2004-03-11T20:34:17","date_gmt":"2004-03-12T01:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2004\/03\/11\/1864.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:45:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:45:24","slug":"granny-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2004\/03\/11\/granny-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Granny D"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I happened to be reminded of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grannyd.com\/\">Granny D<\/a>, who is on a voter-registration drive. Her&#8212;what, organization? gang? following?&#8212;web page, anyway, urges you to &#8220;Turn your office desk into a Voter Registration and Get-Out-The-Vote center!&#8221;\n<p>Which is nice, and does some of the work of Tipping the vote, but I doubt it will work. After all, the web page isn&#8217;t particularly persuasive, and their instructions aren&#8217;t very inspired. I mean, I&#8217;m happy they are there, but ... essentially, the site just gives you a link to an online registration-form site, which lets you type in info and fill out a mail-in registration form. It tells you to let people know by sending a memo (probably by email) and putting up a poster or two. It&#8217;s hard to believe that much will happen that way.\n<p>Further up the page there are other suggestions, my favorite is a shopping-district trip registering employees. It&#8217;s worth trying, and you might get a few people to register, but I&#8217;m not convinced that those people will vote. I suspect that getting people to register is comparatively easier, compared to getting them to vote.\n<p>I&#8217;m not knocking the Granny; her own tactic (wandering around the country drawing attention to herself and then registering people drawn to that attention) is a wonderful one. But I&#8217;m looking for an epidemic of voting, not just incremental added voters.\n<p>Redintegro Iraq,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I happened to be reminded of Granny D, who is on a voter-registration drive. Her\u2014what, organization? gang? following?\u2014web page, anyway, urges you to \u201cTurn your office desk into a Voter Registration and Get-Out-The-Vote center!\u201d Which is nice, and does some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16952,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions\/16952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}