{"id":1146,"date":"2005-03-13T07:32:23","date_gmt":"2005-03-13T07:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2005-03-13T07:32:23","modified_gmt":"2005-03-13T07:32:23","slug":"open_records_el","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1146","title":{"rendered":"Open Records &#038; Election Flaws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Borowski continues his excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/metro\/mar05\/309078.asp\">coverage<\/a> on local election flaws:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>In the United States, your ballot is secret, but almost everything else about an election is part of the public record: Who voted and at what ward. Where they live. How old they are. Even what number they were in line.<\/p>\n<p>Until recently, that is.<\/p>\n<p>At least in Wisconsin, where a 2003 change in state law put the birth dates of voters off limits to the public, making it nearly impossible to determine whether someone voted twice, a felon voted improperly, or someone voted as a dead person.<\/p>\n<p>And in Milwaukee, where officials have denied access &#8211; for now &#8211; to nearly all information about the Nov. 2 election, citing an ongoing local-federal investigation into possible voter fraud.<\/p>\n<p>The irony: The investigation was started only after the Journal Sentinel revealed a host of problems about the election &#8211; including 7,000 votes that are unaccounted for &#8211; by examining information it obtained through open records requests.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Borowski continues his excellent coverage on local election flaws: In the United States, your ballot is secret, but almost everything else about an election is part of the public record: Who voted and at what ward. Where they live. How old they are. Even what number they were in line. Until recently, that is. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}