{"id":103,"date":"2012-06-25T21:05:17","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T02:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donaldwinslow.info\/blog\/?p=103"},"modified":"2012-06-25T21:05:17","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T02:05:17","slug":"elections-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/donaldwinslow.info\/blog\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"Elections tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every time an election comes up, I find myself cramming at the last minute to decide whom to vote against. Usually I don&#8217;t even know what races I&#8217;ll see on the ballot. Sometimes I don&#8217;t even know there&#8217;s an election until Tuesday! Now if I read the paper every day and attended public forums I&#8217;d be much better informed, but we slackers will never have a voice in politics unless we demand easy and transparent information about elections. Unfortunately, Pottawatomie County does not have a webpage and there is no simple way to be sure what will be on the ballot when I go into my polling place. <\/p>\n<p>To rectify this situation, I asked my wife to stop by the County office and ask for sample ballots for our precinct (630003 in Shawnee, Oklahoma). I scanned them and posted them <a href=\"http:\/\/donaldwinslow.info\/sampleballots.html\">here<\/a>. There&#8217;s a ballot for the city elections, and Karen (a registered Democrat) also picked up the Democratic primary ballot. Sorry, you&#8217;ll have to look elsewhere for the Republican ballot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time an election comes up, I find myself cramming at the last minute to decide whom to vote against. Usually I don&#8217;t even know what races I&#8217;ll see on the ballot. Sometimes I don&#8217;t even know there&#8217;s an election until Tuesday! Now if I read the paper every day and attended public forums I&#8217;d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/donaldwinslow.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/donaldwinslow.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/donaldwinslow.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/donaldwinslow.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/donaldwinslow.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/donaldwinslow.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"http:\/\/donaldwinslow.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/donaldwinslow.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/donaldwinslow.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/donaldwinslow.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}