{"id":44046,"date":"2020-08-18T00:54:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T00:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44046"},"modified":"2020-08-18T00:55:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T00:55:13","slug":"voting-early-an-option-for-sure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44046","title":{"rendered":"Voting early: an option for sure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=USPS%20%23MAGA%20%40JoeBiden%20%23earlyvoting&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/EarlyVoting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21259\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/EarlyVoting-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/EarlyVoting-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/EarlyVoting-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/EarlyVoting-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/EarlyVoting.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I cannot believe I am about to admit to possibly doing the following thing: <em>voting early.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s open warfare on the vote by mail process being promoted by Democrats has given me serious pause to break from my Election Day tradition.<\/p>\n<p>I much prefer voting in person, at the polling place, on Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>The COVID-19 pandemic, along with Trump&#8217;s campaign to dismember the U.S. Postal Service is giving me second thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>I am not exactly a full-throated backer of mail-in voting. Given the threat of standing in line with dozens or hundreds of other voters while we&#8217;re battling a killer pandemic, I prefer voting by mail to the normal voting process. Trump is threatening to forestall mail-in voting by cutting funds for the USPS. He even <em>admits<\/em> to seeking to derail the Postal Service for political reasons: mail-in voting favors Democrats, Trump says, and we just cannot have that.<\/p>\n<p>This is a disgraceful politicization of an agency that for many decades has been held in the highest regard by the American public.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I am left to ponder whether I want to stand in line on Election Day or vote early, when the crowds traditionally are much thinner.<\/p>\n<p>Given the stakes, I am leaning toward voting early. Oh, man. I cannot possibly articulate why that troubles me. It just does.<\/p>\n<p>However, if the option &#8212; absent a vote-by-mail program enacted in Texas &#8212; is to wait on Election Day in a crowd of strangers while we&#8217;re all fighting a viral pandemic that could kill us &#8230; you get my drift, yes?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=USPS%20%23MAGA%20%40JoeBiden%20%23earlyvoting&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot believe I am about to admit to possibly doing the following thing: voting early. Donald Trump&#8217;s open warfare on the vote by mail process being promoted by Democrats has given me serious pause to break from my Election Day tradition. I much prefer voting in person, at the polling place, on Election Day. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44046\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Voting early: an option for sure<\/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":[9],"tags":[7225,1424,1496,2505,6108],"class_list":["post-44046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-2020-election","tag-donald-trump","tag-early-voting","tag-joe-biden","tag-usps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44046","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=44046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44048,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44046\/revisions\/44048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}