{"id":1070,"date":"2009-11-03T23:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T03:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2009-11-03T23:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T03:24:00","slug":"why-i-still-vote-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2009\/11\/03\/why-i-still-vote-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I still vote. II"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1071\" style=\"width: 548px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1071\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1071\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2009\/11\/peabody.png\" alt=\"The Peabody about an hour to go.\" width=\"538\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2009\/11\/peabody.png 538w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2009\/11\/peabody-300x107.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1071\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Peabody about an hour to go.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The polls are closed now. The ballot collecting machines are all at the Senior. So too are the &#8220;Auxiliary Ballot Boxes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1072\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1072\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1072\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2009\/11\/ballotboxes@sc.png\" alt=\"Ballot and Aux ballot boxes; Senior Center Nov. 3, 2009\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2009\/11\/ballotboxes@sc.png 540w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2009\/11\/ballotboxes@sc-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1072\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ballot and Aux ballot boxes; Senior Center Nov. 3, 2009<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My ballot which had two write-ins was rejected by the machine. It went into the Aux Box. In1999, there were so few write-ins, the Election Commission counted them on the spot. They ran the PR computer program. The results were announced at 10:00 P. This time there are too many. The Election Commission is going to start counting at 9:00 AM. Nothing will be known tonight.<\/p>\n<h3>Goodnight!<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The polls are closed now. The ballot collecting machines are all at the Senior. So too are the &#8220;Auxiliary Ballot Boxes.&#8221; My ballot which had two write-ins was rejected by the machine. It went into the Aux Box. In1999, there were so few write-ins, the Election Commission counted them on the spot. They ran the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1073,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}