{"id":84,"date":"2004-09-14T08:29:45","date_gmt":"2004-09-14T12:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2004\/09\/14\/84\/"},"modified":"2005-07-29T02:21:48","modified_gmt":"2005-07-29T07:21:48","slug":"only-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2004\/09\/14\/84\/","title":{"rendered":"only 10%"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/design\/lenz\/ganges.jpg\"target=_blank><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/design\/lenz\/ganges-small.gif\" alt=\"random\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/design\/lenz\/gangesreflect.jpg\"target=_blank><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/design\/lenz\/gangesreflect-small.gif\" alt=\"random\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Working the polls was fun.  There were only about 100 people who went into the polling place while I was there from 7:45am to 11am.  90% of them were retired folk- some had to be helped into the polling place!  It turns out that in the 3 main races the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A24560-2004Sep15.html \"target=_blank>incumbents were dethroned<\/a> by newcomers.  I was annoyed to see Marion Barry win the election in Ward 8.  I don&#8217;t understand how people can elect someone who was <a hred=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/stories\/2004\/06\/12\/barry040612\"target=_blank>filmed smoking crack<\/a>.  Nonetheless, I find it harrowing that of the 550,000 residents of DC, only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/elections\/2004\/dc\/index.html \"target=_blank>about 10% came out to vote<\/a>.  In a town where local party politics is dominated by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democrats.org\"target=_blank>one party<\/a>, the primaries are more important than the actual election day.  A real democracy cannot survive when only 10% of the populace takes part in the election.  Granted November 2nd will be probably have a significantly higher turnout, but the local races will already have been decided!<\/p>\n<p>The renderings are of the Ganges River Delta in India.  One is of the satellite image by itself, and the other is a four paneled reflection of the same satellite image.  I find it interesting how the randomized torus graphic is more complex in the reflection rendering, but I personally think the other torus looks better<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working the polls was fun. There were only about 100 people who went into the polling place while I was there from 7:45am to 11am. 90% of them were retired folk- some had to be helped into the polling place! It turns out that in the 3 main races the incumbents were dethroned by newcomers. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,30,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-india","category-lenz","category-renderings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":40,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}