{"id":33554,"date":"2006-11-07T04:56:04","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T09:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismaverick.com\/wp\/2006\/11\/07\/11-7-06\/"},"modified":"2015-03-02T21:09:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T02:09:48","slug":"11-7-06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrismaverick.com\/wp\/2006\/11\/07\/11-7-06\/","title":{"rendered":"11-7-06"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"flickr-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chrismaverick\/291512728\/\" class=\"flickr-link\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chrismaverick.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/291512728_d6f89adc3b_o.jpg?resize=640%2C512\" width=\"640\" height=\"512\" alt=\"11-7-06\" class=\"keyring-img\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class='flickr-caption'>Day 88 of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chrismaverick\/sets\/72157594233672155\/\">365 days<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Today is mid term election day in the United States, and the first time I used an electronic touch screen voting machine.<\/p>\n<p>Due to a particular technicality of Ohio (where I used to live) law, I have been voting in elections since I was 17 years old. The law stated that in order to vote you had to be 18 years old before the general election. The general election is always in November. My birthday is in August. We had a special election in the spring. So I was allowed to register to vote as I was going to be 18 before the general election, and since I was registered, they had to let me vote in the special election. Anyway, in 15 years of voting, I have never been registered with any of the U.S.&#8217;s political parties. I&#8217;m kind of against the two party system for many many reasons, but one thing about it REALLY irritates me. If you live in an area which is predominantly of one political party, like say where I do, where like 99% of the population are Democrats, then a lot of times someone will be running unopposed on the ballot. I <b>HATE<\/b> that! So since I have been voting, anytime I see someone running unopposed from either party, I vote for a write-in candidate. Specifically myself. 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Its bad enough that the democratic candidate for governor is ahead in the polls by like 5 million points, but what's really disgusting is that the democratic candidates for the only two other positions I was allowed to vote for are running completely unopposed.\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 1 comment","block_context":{"text":"With 1 comment","link":"https:\/\/www.chrismaverick.com\/wp\/2002\/11\/05\/throwing-in-my-hat\/#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":794,"url":"https:\/\/www.chrismaverick.com\/wp\/2005\/03\/09\/a-non-partisan-post-on-expressing-your-political-support-in-non-election-years\/","url_meta":{"origin":33554,"position":5},"title":"a non-partisan post on expressing your political support in non-election years&#8230;","author":"mav","date":"March 9, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Ok, so careful analysis of the intricate wisdom and rhetoric I have posted here in the last three years of live journaling or anything that I might have written or posted to usenet or graffiti boards or whatnot before, or maybe just having a simple conversation with me will probably\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 49 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 49 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.chrismaverick.com\/wp\/2005\/03\/09\/a-non-partisan-post-on-expressing-your-political-support-in-non-election-years\/#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"kind":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrismaverick.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrismaverick.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrismaverick.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrismaverick.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrismaverick.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrismaverick.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33556,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrismaverick.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33554\/revisions\/33556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrismaverick.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrismaverick.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrismaverick.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}