{"id":10824,"date":"2018-06-21T04:23:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T04:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=10824"},"modified":"2018-08-05T07:54:29","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T07:54:29","slug":"2018-07-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2018-07-01\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting Systems, The Invisible Force that Shapes Societies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Jeff Justice<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>July 1, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most Americans are hardly aware that democracies have choices when it comes to how they vote.   When our current system elects a candidate not favored by the majority, we blame the Russians, dark money, or anything but the voting system.   In this talk, Jeff Justice will review the history of voting systems and ways we could greatly improve what we now have. <\/p>\n<p>Jeff Justice is a board member of the Center for Election Science. He has previously given talks about the value of YouTube, which has great resources on this current topic.  He is also a member of the Humanist Community in Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/283240126\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/283240126\">Voting Systems, The Invisible Force that Shapes Societies &#8211; Jeff Justice<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/hcsv\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nRSVP on Meetup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/humanistcommunity\/events\/251971730\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/humanistcommsv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nFollow us on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HumanistCommSV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nSee videos of our past Forums <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Justice July 1, 2018 Most Americans are hardly aware that democracies have choices when it comes to how they vote. When our current system elects a candidate not favored by the majority, we blame the Russians, dark money, or anything but the voting system. In this talk, Jeff Justice will review the history of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2018-07-01\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Voting Systems, The Invisible Force that Shapes Societies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10824"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10877,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10824\/revisions\/10877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}