{"id":21176,"date":"2012-05-01T10:20:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T14:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=21176"},"modified":"2012-05-01T10:20:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T14:20:46","slug":"the-bahamas-an-electoral-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/05\/the-bahamas-an-electoral-paradise","title":{"rendered":"The Bahamas an Electoral Paradise?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20777\" title=\"vote-election-ballot\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/vote-election-ballot.jpg\" alt=\"2012 Election\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/vote-election-ballot.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/vote-election-ballot-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Do not chide yourself if this news has passed you by, but in six  days&#8217; time the people of the Bahamas go to the polls. It is an election  that seems to matter a great deal to them, or at least it matters in a  way that we who have a jaded palate for democracy would find very  striking, and, in many ways, humbling.<\/p>\n<p>The Bahamian electoral system is the one bequeathed to them by their  British former colonial masters, a first-past-the-post poll to decide  who wins a seat in the House of Representatives (there are 38  constituencies, and a registered electorate of 172,000). Universal  suffrage came to the Bahamas only in 1967, and democracy is something  they cherish in the way anyone would a gift so recently bestowed.<\/p>\n<p>The Bahamian electoral system is the one bequeathed to them by their  British former colonial masters, a first-past-the-post poll to decide  who wins a seat in the House of Representatives (there are 38  constituencies, and a registered electorate of 172,000). Universal  suffrage came to the Bahamas only in 1967, and democracy is something  they cherish in the way anyone would a gift so recently bestowed.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em><strong>By: Simon Kelner<br \/>\nSource: The Independent<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Kelner from the Independent says that the upcoming election matters a great deal to Bahamians, or at least it matters in a way that those who have a jaded palate for democracy would find very striking, and, in many ways, humbling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[351,174,168],"class_list":["post-21176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-british","tag-election","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}