{"id":1911,"date":"2014-06-12T11:51:31","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T15:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/?p=1911"},"modified":"2014-06-12T11:51:31","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T15:51:31","slug":"legislators-listen-up-we-want-fair-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/12\/legislators-listen-up-we-want-fair-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislators listen up, we want fair elections!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have the good fortune to be a bike commuter for most of the year, which gives me some good bike path thinking time every morning. A couple of years ago, I was riding along and mulling over ways to explain prison gerrymandering (as you do) when the lyrics started to come to me for a <a href=\"\/articles\/prison_gerrymandering_song.pdf\">new spin<\/a> on the classic Yankee Doodle.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how it starts:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If there\u2019s a prison in your district,<br \/>\ndon\u2019t get so elated<br \/>\n\u2018cause it\u2019s not fair to count folks there<br \/>\nwho are incarcerated<\/p>\n<p>Your district may be padded full,<br \/>\nbut please don&#8217;t you gloat<br \/>\n&#8217;cause you are violating my right<br \/>\nto one person, one vote<\/p>\n<p>Chorus:<br \/>\nLegislators listen up,<br \/>\nwe want fair elections!<br \/>\nYou can&#8217;t count constituents<br \/>\nin your house of corrections\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"\/articles\/prison_gerrymandering_song.pdf\">full sing-along print-out version<\/a> is here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legislators listen up,<br \/>\nwe want fair elections!<br \/>\nYou can&#8217;t count constituents<br \/>\nin your house of corrections!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[13],"class_list":["post-1911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shorts","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12518,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions\/12518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1911"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}