{"id":181677,"date":"2016-04-16T18:02:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/04\/16\/we-voted-today\/"},"modified":"2016-04-16T18:02:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T23:02:00","slug":"we-voted-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/04\/16\/we-voted-today\/","title":{"rendered":"We Voted Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-B9aVapA1-Ec\/VxL20Gc9NTI\/AAAAAAAABUU\/DwW2kGAf6q8oedWk6vQQ5Mphh85aaFtSQCK4B\/s1600\/KIMG0313-724219.JPG\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-B9aVapA1-Ec\/VxL20Gc9NTI\/AAAAAAAABUU\/DwW2kGAf6q8oedWk6vQQ5Mphh85aaFtSQCK4B\/s1600\/KIMG0313-724219.JPG\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a>Today was the first day for Maryland early voting, so Sharon<sup>*<\/sup> and I went to vote.<\/p>\n<p>I noticed three things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The oddest campaign sign of the season (see picture) wherein one Ray Bly campaigns as a mentally ill child abuser.<\/li>\n<li>There were no Hillary Clinton signs outside of the early voting sites.<\/li>\n<li>Maryland has gone from touch screen to optically scanned paper ballots.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have to figure that the Clinton campaign has strip mined staff from Maryland for their &#8220;firewall&#8221; in New York State.<\/p>\n<p>The change from touch screen to optoscan is a good thing in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s faster, and it retains a paper trail for a possible recount.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Love of my life, light of the  cosmos, <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: bold;\">she  who must be obeyed<\/span>, my wife.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the first day for Maryland early voting, so Sharon* and I went to vote. I noticed three things: The oddest campaign sign of the season (see picture) wherein one Ray Bly campaigns as a mentally ill child abuser. There were no Hillary Clinton signs outside of the early voting sites. Maryland has gone &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,977,1084],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign","category-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}