{"id":4293,"date":"2026-03-04T17:27:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T17:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/a-republic-cannot-function-without-trust-in-elections\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T17:27:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T17:27:58","slug":"a-republic-cannot-function-without-trust-in-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/a-republic-cannot-function-without-trust-in-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"A Republic Cannot Function Without Trust in Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/57\/572262_1_.jpg\" \/><br \/>National security requires a provable vote. A republic cannot function on &#8216;trust us.&#8217;<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2026\/03\/04\/a_republic_cannot_function_without_trust_in_elections_693415.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National security requires a provable vote. A republic cannot function on &#8216;trust us.&#8217; Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}