{"id":2058,"date":"2015-05-05T10:53:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T10:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/?p=2058"},"modified":"2015-05-05T10:59:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T10:59:02","slug":"young-people-under-represented-in-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2015\/05\/young-people-under-represented-in-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Young people under represented in election"},"content":{"rendered":"

And old people are over represented in the UK election, because old people tend to vote and young people don’t.
\nHere is a solution. Give people 100 votes at age 18 and reduce the number of votes by one each year. By the time they reach 100 years old they will only have 82 votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And old people are over represented in the UK election, because old people tend to vote and young people don’t. Here is a solution. Give people 100 votes at age 18 and reduce the number of votes by one each … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Wm4j-xc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2060,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2015\/05\/young-people-under-represented-in-election-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":2058,"position":0},"title":"Young people under represented in election","author":"taxicle","date":"May 6, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"And old people are over represented in the UK election, because old people tend to vote and young people don't. 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