{"id":7734,"date":"2018-10-08T15:30:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T19:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/10\/08\/time-for-election-reform\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T18:49:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T23:49:22","slug":"time-for-election-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/time-for-election-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Time for election reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an op-ed for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/opinion\/commentary\/commentary-election-reform-could-restore-trust-in-sc-government\/article_2b27d6c2-c8c5-11e8-878b-477879f1e109.html\">The Post and Courier<\/a><\/strong> in Charleston, Furman Politics and International Affairs Professor Brent Nelsen argues that it\u2019s time to reform the election system in South Carolina and let the state\u2019s citizens elect leaders they can trust. \u201cAmericans have lost trust in their democratic institutions and elected representatives,\u201d he writes. \u201cThis holds true at the national and state levels, and South Carolina is no exception. Restoring trust is essential to the survival of republican government in this country. Now is the time to make important changes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an op-ed for The Post and Courier in Charleston, Furman Politics and International Affairs Professor Brent Nelsen argues that it\u2019s time to reform the election system in South Carolina [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":4604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}