{"id":4390,"date":"2016-02-29T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=4390"},"modified":"2016-03-01T10:00:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T15:00:42","slug":"pirates-can-vote-in-tuesdays-presidential-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/29\/pirates-can-vote-in-tuesdays-presidential-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates Can Vote in Tuesday&#8217;s Presidential Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> If your poll worker is confused about whether you can vote (our code is X just so you know), then you can point them to this Massachusetts Elections Division tweet:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Check your <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SuperTuesday?src=hash\">#SuperTuesday<\/a> ballot at <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xH7U2oZXk8\">https:\/\/t.co\/xH7U2oZXk8<\/a> before you go to vote. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mapoli?src=hash\">#mapoli<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BDZoYoLl7r\">pic.twitter.com\/BDZoYoLl7r<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mass. Elections Div. (@MrVoterReg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrVoterReg\/status\/704392619669983232\">February 29, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nIt is hard to avoid talk of the presidential primaries, but at least in Massachusetts it will be over on Tuesday. Pirate voters can vote in any party primary without changing their voter registration and can choose from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sec.state.ma.us\/ele\/ele16\/primary_candidates16.htm\">candidates from three parties<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While we don&#8217;t endorse in the Presidential election, <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2016\/02\/more-gop-presidential-hopefuls-now-side-with-the-fbi-in-iphone-crypto-fight\/\">numerous candidates announced their support<\/a> for the FBI&#8217;s attempt to force Apple to backdoor the iOS.\u00a0 Some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/2986220\/net-neutrality\/where-the-candidates-stand-on-net-neutrality.html\">oppose net neutrality<\/a>, while supporting <a href=\"https:\/\/nakedsecurity.sophos.com\/2016\/02\/02\/where-do-us-presidential-candidates-stand-on-privacy-and-surveillance\/\">mass surveillance<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/2016_presidential_candidates_on_the_Trans-Pacific_Partnership_trade_deal\">trade treaties that will place corporations over people<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Polls are open from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m. on Tuesday. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheredoivotema.com\/bal\/myelectioninfo.aspx\">find where to vote<\/a> and, if you haven&#8217;t registered as a Pirate voter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.state.ma.us\/ovr\/\">you can do so on-line<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We&#8217;re looking for many good Pirates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Of course we would prefer to have a Pirate running for president, but we aren&#8217;t there yet.\u00a0 Our focus is on the Massachusetts legislature which has a tendency to grant millions in tax breaks to Hollywood, GE and <a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/crew\/civicrm\/petition\/sign?sid=3&amp;reset=1\">potentially video game companies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We are looking for Pirates to run for Massachusetts house and senate in 2016 or city and town offices in 2017.\u00a0 Candidates for the legislature have to submit nomination signatures for validation by May 3rd, but candidates only need signatures from 150 voters in the district to get on the ballot.\u00a0 Getting on the ballot takes some effort, but with 60% of legislators running unopposed in November, is worth it.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in running, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.state.ma.us\/OVR\/\">be sure to change your voter registration to Pirate by Tuesday<\/a><\/strong> and <a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/crew\/forms\/support-the-pirate-party\">tell us you are interested in running<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Image source: <a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/d\/de\/The_White_House_in_Washington,_DC.jpg\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: If your poll worker is confused about whether you can vote (our code is X just so you know), then you can&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","category-slider"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/The_White_House_in_Washington_DC.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-18O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4390"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4396,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions\/4396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}