{"id":524,"date":"2008-11-04T21:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T21:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/04\/vote\/"},"modified":"2008-11-04T21:26:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T21:26:00","slug":"vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/04\/vote\/","title":{"rendered":"vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel a little bad for people that had to stand in really long lines to vote &#8211; my experience was really easy today.<\/p>\n<p>I left work at 3:30 and I was at the polling place in about 15 minutes.  There were no problems with parking and there were signs directing people to the entrance.  <\/p>\n<p>I was in line for maybe a couple of minutes before I was able to get checked in  &#8211; and the check-in took maybe two minutes. <\/p>\n<p>I had my checklist so the voting process was easy.   I tore off the stubs for the ballot and only waited a minute before I was able to feed them into the machine.    I got my sticker and headed out &#8211; I was home by 4:00<\/p>\n<p>There was a bit of drama in line behind me &#8211; one guy couldn&#8217;t vote because the records said that an absentee ballot had been sent to his address.   He claimed he had never requested one &#8211; but they had no way of knowing if he had sent it in or not.  So, he had to cast a provisional ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, pretty uneventful.<\/p>\n<p>later&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7938355-5101655692941725698?l=approximatelyequalto.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel a little bad for people that had to stand in really long lines to vote &#8211; my experience was really easy today. I left work at 3:30 and I was at the polling place in about 15 minutes. There were no problems with parking and there were signs directing people to the entrance. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}