{"id":2756,"date":"2020-10-30T00:10:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T00:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=2756"},"modified":"2020-10-30T00:10:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T00:10:43","slug":"voting-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=2756","title":{"rendered":"Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I voted yesterday. I had my choice of qualified, though boring, candidates for local offices.  There were virtually no initiatives or referendums which was most unusual for Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I then drove to the dropbox, and it was done. I could have gone to the mailbox, but the dropbox was a right-hand turn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My county already has a 75% return rate, with 95% anticipated. We had a 55% return rate for the primary, and the auditor counted the ballots nine times by the following Friday. I think they were doing it for the fun. At any rate, I&#8217;m not worried about the handling of my ballot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I voted yesterday. I had my choice of qualified, though boring, candidates for local offices. There were virtually no initiatives or referendums which was most unusual for Washington. I then drove to the dropbox, and it was done. I could have gone to the mailbox, but the dropbox was a right-hand turn. My county already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2757,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756\/revisions\/2757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}