{"id":1229,"date":"2016-11-08T09:50:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T13:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summerofjim.com\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2016-11-08T09:50:29","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T13:50:29","slug":"i-voted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/?p=1229","title":{"rendered":"I Voted!"},"content":{"rendered":"

And here\u2019s the great news!\u00a0 In Connecticut they allow you to vote on behalf of other people, too.\u00a0 You know\u2026 folks who can\u2019t make it to the polling place.\u00a0 Not only that, I got to vote for folks who live in other<\/em> States!\u00a0 Further, besides providing us with ballots from any county in any State, we are also given as many envelopes and stamps as we need to mail the ballots in!\u00a0 I have been busy voting for better than a month. I\u2019m telling you, Connecticut is a super great State!<\/p>\n

I have 20 cousins (who have given me power of attorney to cast votes on their behalf) who all live in that Arizona County where that Sheriff is running for re-election.\u00a0 I think you know who I\u2019m talking about. Anyway, my cousins tell me they love the weather in Arizona and I should consider moving down.<\/p>\n

I also have 14 Fraternity Brothers living in Florida, each has assigned me voting rights.\u00a0 Although one died this past March.\u00a0 No matter, it\u2019s somewhat of a secret.<\/p>\n

And then there is my Sister Blanche who has retired to North Carolina. \u00a0Before I could cast her ballot, the majordomo <\/em>of the League of Women Voters demanded that I produce a photo of her.\u00a0 \u00a0Then (roll my eyes), I had to go into a long winded explanation on how Blanche likes to wear dinosaur suits, and she was afraid that she was going to get hassled by meat eating dinosaurs at the polling place. Well, we\u2019ve all heard about voter intimidation. \u00a0Here\u2019s a picture of Blanche.<\/p>\n

\"parasaurolophus\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And then there is my Grandma Esther.\u00a0 She has voted in every election since Chester A. Arthur was placed on the ballot.\u00a0 She said, and I quote \u201cHe went to Union College!\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 The voting operatives in Woodbury demanded to know if she was a citizen and I assured them that she was a solid American! \u00a0Born in Bialystok, Connecticut.\u00a0 I then had to explain that Bialystok was a tiny hamlet in northeast Connecticut and neighbored Warsaw, Connecticut. I was given the thumbs-up!<\/p>\n

On election day, Grandma is good for polishing off 3 or 4 six-packs of suds.\u00a0 She insists on drinking only Imported beer\u2026 imported from St. Louis!<\/em><\/p>\n

Esther owned a duplex on Central Park West, and made a habit of using the hansome cabs for target practice. \u00a0She now lives in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n

\"granny\"<\/a><\/p>\n

All the candidates have been talking about \u201cgetting out the vote\u201d.\u00a0 Well, in Connecticut we take such encouragement to heart!\u00a0 And what\u2019s all this jazz about voter fraud?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And here\u2019s the great news!\u00a0 In Connecticut they allow you to vote on behalf of other people, too.\u00a0 You know\u2026 folks who can\u2019t make it to the polling place.\u00a0 Not only that, I got to vote for folks who live … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1232,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}