{"id":22285,"date":"2016-02-18T00:47:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T08:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/google-wants-you-to-be-able-to-vote-online"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:10:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:10:36","slug":"google-wants-you-to-be-able-to-vote-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/google-wants-you-to-be-able-to-vote-online","title":{"rendered":"Google wants you to be able to vote online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-wants-you-to-be-able-to-vote-online.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like the idea of using Google to vote online for the best airline, steamed dumpling or health app?<\/p>\n<p>What about using Google to vote for governor or president? That seems to be Google\u2019s plan.<\/p>\n<p>The search giant received a <a href=\"http:\/\/patft.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=39&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&s1=Google.ASNM.&p=1&OS=AN\/Google&RS=AN\/Google\" target=\"new\">U.S. patent<\/a> for a voting user interface (VUI). The interface would appear along with search results and would allow the user to vote for one or more contestants competing in a campaign.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3034230\/search\/google-wants-you-to-be-able-to-vote-online.html?utm_content=bufferf285c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like the idea of using Google to vote online for the best airline, steamed dumpling or health app? What about using Google to vote for governor or president? That seems to be Google\u2019s plan. The search giant received a U.S. patent for a voting user interface (VUI). The interface would appear along with search results [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1759,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-governance","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68398,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22285\/revisions\/68398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}