{"id":44795,"date":"2020-10-15T21:04:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T21:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44795"},"modified":"2020-10-15T21:06:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T21:06:32","slug":"didnt-miss-this-spot-on-the-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44795","title":{"rendered":"Didn&#8217;t miss this spot on the ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23straightticketvoting%20%23GOP%20%23Democrats&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/straight-ticket-voting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44796\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/straight-ticket-voting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"116\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>My wife and I did our patriotic duty earlier this week and voted in the Texas general election.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know what I did not miss? I did not miss the spot on the ballot that would have allowed me to vote for all candidates of just one party.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Legislature was bitten by the Bug of Wisdom when it eliminated the straight-ticket spot on our ballots. I normally am critical of the Legislature for this and\/or that issue, but they got this one right.<\/p>\n<p>This year I was forced to go down the ballot race by race, name by name. I&#8217;ve never voted straight-party in all my years living in Texas. I wouldn&#8217;t have punched that spot on the ballot this year were I given the chance.<\/p>\n<p>I did leave a few ballot spots blank. I did, though, walk through each race and I looked carefully at several of the races before making my selection.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the way all of us should vote. I long have detested straight-ticket voting and I have argued for years that it should be eliminated from the ballot in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad the Legislature finally listened to me. Therefore, I will take all the credit I deserve.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re welcome.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/2012\/11\/straight-party-voting-needs-to-go\/<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23straightticketvoting%20%23GOP%20%23Democrats&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com My wife and I did our patriotic duty earlier this week and voted in the Texas general election. Do you know what I did not miss? I did not miss the spot on the ballot that would have allowed me to vote for all candidates of just one party. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44795\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Didn&#8217;t miss this spot on the ballot<\/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":[13],"tags":[4432,4653],"class_list":["post-44795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-straight-ticket-voting","tag-texas-legislature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44795","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=44795"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44798,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44795\/revisions\/44798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}