{"id":1079,"date":"2010-03-12T14:05:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T19:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2017-12-19T11:48:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T16:48:13","slug":"keene-employs-informed-voters-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2010\/03\/12\/keene-employs-informed-voters-sort-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Keene Employs Informed Voters &#8211; Sort Of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Ed Naile<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Out in Keene the local newspaper reports:<br \/>\n<strong>Keene School District Voters Prove To be Most Agreeable&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Really, agreeable &#8211; some headline.<\/p>\n<p>Out in Keene the numbers say it all. Check it out yourself at the state web site:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhes.nh.gov\/elmi\/products\/cp\/profiles-htm\/keene.htm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Profile of Keene, NH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Keene has some really smart people, being a college town. Smart people are educated and know the issues. They are often described as \u201cinformed voters\u201d because they vote to \u201cinvest\u201d in their municipality.<\/p>\n<p>Keene had an 8.3% voter turnout to invest another $60.4 million dollars in their school system.<\/p>\n<p>With 16,724 registered voters in 2010 that means 1,388 voters made that very informed investment of other people\u2019s money, as well as their own \u2013 sort of.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSort of\u201d is a very popular expression among the college crowd. Listen to any college kid and see how long it takes to work \u201csort of\u201d into just about every sentence. I think it is a mandatory expression for graduation.<\/p>\n<p>Back to numbers:<\/p>\n<p>Keene has, according to the state web site, 16,618 \u201cresidents\u201d above the age of 19. Let\u2019s call them potentially eligible voters.<\/p>\n<p>That sure looks like an almost 100% registration rate even factoring in how many are in the 18-19 voting-age bracket.<\/p>\n<p>Another interesting thing about Keene is how many people work for the city school system; 690, and the college; 820.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like just the \u201cfriends and family program\u201d of Keene School District employees is enough to pass a $60 million dollar budget or anything else they feel like.<\/p>\n<p>Now that is an informed bunch of voters \u2013 sort of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ed Naile Out in Keene the local newspaper reports: Keene School District Voters Prove To be Most Agreeable&#8230; Really, agreeable &#8211; some headline. Out in Keene the numbers say it all. Check it out yourself at the state web site: Profile of Keene, NH Keene has some really smart people, being a college town. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[100,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6767,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions\/6767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}