{"id":6573,"date":"2015-09-14T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=6573"},"modified":"2015-09-12T22:39:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T03:39:00","slug":"one-vote-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/09\/one-vote-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"One vote matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two stories about the power of one:<\/p>\n<p>A Riceville school board candidate failed to win election because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/2015\/09\/10\/man-loses-election-when-nobody-votes-including-himself\/72008048\/\">he didn&#8217;t take time to vote for himself<\/a> \u2014 <em>and no one else did either<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In Columbia, Missouri, businesses along Business Loop I-70 created a &#8220;community improvement district&#8221; specifically designed to exclude residents so they could\u00a0impose a sales-tax increase \u2014 except a student moved into a rental house and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbiatribune.com\/news\/local\/college-student-would-be-sole-voter-in-cid-sales-tax\/article_6702c44b-0243-51f8-861c-1df0b462cd92.html\">became the sole voter<\/a> in the bounded area. Under Missouri law, that meant she alone would decide on the increase, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/hiltzik\/la-fi-mh-a-gerrymandering-attempt-20150831-column.html\">after doing research she opposed it<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/kbia.org\/post\/anomaly-postpones-columbia-business-loop-cid-election\">There won&#8217;t be any vote at all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two stories about the power of one: A Riceville school board candidate failed to win election because he didn&#8217;t take time to vote for himself \u2014 and no one else did either. In Columbia, Missouri, businesses along Business Loop I-70 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/09\/one-vote-matters\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6574,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6573\/revisions\/6574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}