{"id":15,"date":"2004-11-06T17:12:42","date_gmt":"2004-11-06T15:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2004-11-06T17:12:42","modified_gmt":"2004-11-06T15:12:42","slug":"in-sweden-we-have-a-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"“In Sweden, We Have a System…”"},"content":{"rendered":"

…is according to delegates of the EU something Swedes seem to start each and every sentence with, and then completing it with a monotonous detailed description about how we Swedes supposedly solve everything the right way<\/em>. Such normativity is usually something I shun. But seriously, I’ve had enough. I can take it no more! Everywhere I look there’s an article about US voting machines breaking down; whole states without paper trails to recount. It just ridiculous! So, I’m going to say it. Hold tight.<\/p>\n

In Sweden, we have a system were none of this could happen. We have a system that’s simple, easy and really old-tech. It’s a system that cannot brake, and it leave mistakes to a minimum. You have to be blind, dumb or both to unintentionally vote for a candidate. <\/p>\n

This is how it works: You put a piece of paper with the candidates name on it in an envelope. You then put the envelope in a ballot box. Whoa! There are even pre-printed pieces of paper with the candidates names on them. <\/p>\n

See. That wasn’t so hard.<\/p>\n

Easy-to-understand instructions in English (with illustrations).<\/a> (PDF)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…is according to delegates of the EU something Swedes seem to start each and every sentence with, and then completing it with a monotonous detailed description about how we Swedes supposedly solve everything the right way. Such normativity is usually something I shun. But seriously, I’ve had enough. I can take it no more! Everywhere […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}