{"id":29834,"date":"2018-05-19T03:00:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T03:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29834"},"modified":"2018-05-19T03:00:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T03:00:11","slug":"here-is-why-early-voting-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29834","title":{"rendered":"Here is why early voting sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/cunninghamvickers_051818twitter.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29835\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/cunninghamvickers_051818twitter-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/cunninghamvickers_051818twitter-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/cunninghamvickers_051818twitter.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A major Texas newspaper has just validated my reasons for hating early voting.<\/p>\n<p>The Dallas Morning News has rescinded an editorial endorsement it had made because a candidate for a Dallas County Commissioners Court seat was revealed to have set up a trust fund for his children if they married white people.<\/p>\n<p>The candidate is Republican Vickers Cunningham. The revelation came to light on the eve of the runoff election for the commissioners court seat. The Dallas Morning News was so incensed at the racially loaded matter that it pulled its endorsement.<\/p>\n<p>This is what I&#8217;m talking about! I have said for many years that &#8212; banning my actual absence from my voting precinct on Election Day &#8212; I always choose to vote on that day. Why? Because I hate being surprised by learning something terrible about my candidate after voting for him or her.<\/p>\n<p>The matter involving Vickers Cunningham falls into that category of unwelcome surprise.<\/p>\n<p>The Morning News said it backed Cunningham because of his experience as a district court judge. It didn&#8217;t know about the compact he made with his children until &#8220;the final days of this campaign.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I know that Election Day voting doesn&#8217;t <em>prevent<\/em> such surprises. I merely want to minimize to the best of my ability the impact of such a surprise by waiting until the last day of an election campaign to exercise my right as a citizen.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major Texas newspaper has just validated my reasons for hating early voting. The Dallas Morning News has rescinded an editorial endorsement it had made because a candidate for a Dallas County Commissioners Court seat was revealed to have set up a trust fund for his children if they married white people. The candidate is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29834\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Here is why early voting sucks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1243,1496,1547,3808],"class_list":["post-29834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-dallas-morning-news","tag-early-voting","tag-election-day","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29836,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29834\/revisions\/29836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}