{"id":8,"date":"2010-08-07T00:27:22","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T04:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/masspirates.wordpress.com\/"},"modified":"2015-11-03T21:49:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T02:49:30","slug":"join-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/join-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Join Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We need your help to open up Massachusetts. You can sign up to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Become a <a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/crew\/forms\/support-the-pirate-party\">supporter<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/crew\/forms\/support-the-pirate-party\">volunteer<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/join-us\/#voter\">Be a Pirate voter<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>Donate <a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/join-us\/donate\/\">money<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/join-us\/contribution\/\">something else of value<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/join-us\/organize\/\">Organize your community<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>Join <a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/join-us\/organize\/\">one of our state-wide mailing lists<\/a> and share ideas and tactics with other Pirates;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/join-us\/organize\/\">Become a regional contact<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"voter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Become a Pirate Voter<\/h3>\n<p>By registering as a Pirate voter you lend us greater legitimacy. We urge you to sign up as a supporter since Massachusetts election rules make it very expensive to find out who our voters are. If you are a lawyer and want to challenge this law or want to help us get the legislature to change the law, please <a href=\"mailto:info@masspirates.org\">email us<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Massachusetts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.state.ma.us\/ovr\/\">Online Voter Registration<\/a> is the easiest way to register, just enter &#8220;Pirate&#8221; in the space for political designation. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.state.ma.us\/ele\/eleifv\/howreg.htm\">Register to vote<\/a> for other ways to register in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>You can also printout a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eac.gov\/voter_resources\/register_to_vote.aspx\">National Voter Registration form<\/a>; enter &#8220;Pirate&#8221; in Box 7 \u2014 Choice of Party. You&#8217;ll need to mail this form to the address given in the instructions.<\/p>\n<p>After changing your registration, you should receive a confirmation notice in 2 to 3 weeks. If you do not receive a confirmation notice, or wish to confirm your voter registration status, please contact your local City or Town Clerk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We need your help to open up Massachusetts. You can sign up to: Become a supporter or volunteer; Be a Pirate voter; Donate&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P1W8mg-8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4141,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/4141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}