{"id":1334,"date":"2004-10-15T09:52:58","date_gmt":"2004-10-15T09:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2004\/10\/15\/election_woes.html"},"modified":"2004-10-15T09:52:58","modified_gmt":"2004-10-15T09:52:58","slug":"election_woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2004\/10\/15\/election_woes.html","title":{"rendered":"election woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This election is going to suck.  I have yet to receive my little packet of information on the candidates and the propositions; none of my roommates have, even though our friends have.  I started getting anxious, wondering if it was possible that someone de-registered me.  I voted last winter &#8211; can you de-register?  Of course, i thought that i registered permanent absentee but my roommate received an absentee and i haven&#8217;t.  Then again, i think i registered like 10 times when i moved here out of anxiety.<\/p>\n<p>A friend of mine is receiving loads of election materials to a new nonexistent roommate with a peculiar name.  Apparently, people are registering folks who don&#8217;t exist.<\/p>\n<p>In my birth state, Nader is being kicked off the ballot for fraudulent signatures used to get him there, in the order of 25,000 fake signatures &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/ALLPOLITICS\/10\/13\/nader.pennsylvania.ap\/\">apparently Mickey Mouse is now voting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In swing states, it appears as though the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2004\/10\/13\/15534\/960\">RNC is funding voter registration volunteers to tear up registration forms if they&#8217;re marked Democratic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The worst part is that there will only be more horror stories between now and November 2.   This election will be nasty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This election is going to suck. I have yet to receive my little packet of information on the candidates and the propositions; none of my roommates have, even though our friends have. I started getting anxious, wondering if it was possible that someone de-registered me. I voted last winter &#8211; can you de-register? Of course, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}