{"id":53409,"date":"2022-11-08T17:47:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T17:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53409"},"modified":"2022-11-08T17:47:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T17:47:28","slug":"election-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53409","title":{"rendered":"Democratic process is alive and thriving"},"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\/2020\/03\/straight-ticket-voting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41572\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/straight-ticket-voting-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/straight-ticket-voting-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/straight-ticket-voting-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/straight-ticket-voting.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We cast our ballots this morning for all the contests facing us in this midterm election, but I want to offer a brief immediate takeaway from what we noticed when we drove to our polling place.<\/p>\n<p>We approached the Princeton (Texas) Community Center and noticed (a) a parking lot full of vehicles, (b) lots of signs extolling the virtues of candidates and issues and (c) a line at the polling station that was stretching out the door.<\/p>\n<p>My thought? The democratic process is alive and well in our Collin County community.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how many of our city of more than 20,000 residents voted early. I just was struck by the active Election Day participation we noticed this morning.<\/p>\n<p>It gives me hope that our process will survive the onslaught it is enduring at the moment from those who seek to undermine it.<\/p>\n<p>I am acutely aware that a momentary glimpse of a polling station doesn&#8217;t precisely qualify as a mountain of empirical evidence of what I have concluded.<\/p>\n<p>I will accept it, though, as sufficient reason to have hope that our electoral process is working.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/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>We cast our ballots this morning for all the contests facing us in this midterm election, but I want to offer a brief immediate takeaway from what we noticed when we drove to our polling place. We approached the Princeton (Texas) Community Center and noticed (a) a parking lot full of vehicles, (b) lots of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53409\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Democratic process is alive and thriving<\/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":[9,14],"tags":[1330,7419,5137,5138],"class_list":["post-53409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-political-news","tag-democracy","tag-maga","tag-voter-turnout","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53409","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=53409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53411,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53409\/revisions\/53411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}