{"id":4905,"date":"2008-10-28T15:50:53","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T22:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=4905"},"modified":"2019-12-23T13:19:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T21:19:21","slug":"wheres-your-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/10\/28\/wheres-your-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s Your Ballot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:4904,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\\\/html\\\/localnews\\\/2008321896_apwaearlyvoting1stldwritethru.html?syndication=rss&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\\\/html\\\/localnews\\\/2008321896_apwaearlyvoting1stldwritethru.html?syndication=rss&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>C&#8217;mon, all you locals. Washington makes this whole voting thing <em>really<\/em> easy to do. So how come so many of you <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2008321896_apwaearlyvoting1stldwritethru.html?syndication=rss\" title=\"Seattle Times: Week before election, fraction of Wash ballots in\">haven&#8217;t sent in your ballot yet<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  With a week to go until Election Day, less than a fourth of the state&#8217;s voters have returned their ballots.<\/p>\n<p>  Ballots were sent out Oct. 17, and must be postmarked by Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>  Thirty-seven of the state&#8217;s 39 counties are voting entirely by mail. King and Pierce Counties still have poll sites, though a majority of voters in those counties already vote by mail.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Grab your ballot, fill in the little bubbles, and send it in. This isn&#8217;t a time to set it aside to &#8220;take care of it later,&#8221; only to find it buried in a stack of bills on Nov. 5th.<\/p>\n<p>Some helpful suggestions when filling it out (however, I&#8217;d be fine&#8230;almost&#8230;with an opposing vote, as long as it meant that you voted):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>President: Barack Obama (A no-brainer.)<\/li>\n<li>WA Governor: Christine Gregoire (Another no-brainer. Dino Rossi is scary, and shouldn&#8217;t be allowed anywhere near government.)<\/li>\n<li>Superintendent of Public Instruction: Randy Dorn (On the advice of Prairie &#8212; an educator &#8212; and everyone she knows involved in education, Terry Bergeron needs to go.)<\/li>\n<li>I-1000: Tough call. (I <em>wanted<\/em> to vote yes on this one, and I personally would want to have this option available should I ever need it. However, I&#8217;m not convinced that the wording is written well, and worry about insurance companies pushing physician-assisted suicide over treatment. I ended up voting no, but I wouldn&#8217;t hold voting either way against anyone.)<\/li>\n<li>I-985: No (Tim Eyman&#8217;s a dork, and I&#8217;ve never been convinced any of his ideas had merit.)<\/li>\n<li>I-1029: No (Sounds good on the face, but introduces unnecessary red tape, and would throw the existing system of long-term care into disarray.)<\/li>\n<li>Proposition 1: Yes (Transportation is good.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C&#8217;mon, all you locals. Washington makes this whole voting thing _really_ easy to do. So how come so many of you haven&#8217;t sent in your ballot yet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14,172],"class_list":["post-4905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}