{"id":5705,"date":"2018-10-17T15:50:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T19:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=5705"},"modified":"2018-10-17T16:31:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T20:31:57","slug":"not-registered-to-vote-do-it-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/17\/not-registered-to-vote-do-it-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Not registered to vote? Do it today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the last day to register to vote in Massachusetts for the November 6th election.\u00a0 You have until 11:59pm tonight to register to vote at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.state.ma.us\/OVR\/\">https:\/\/www.sec.state.ma.us\/OVR\/<\/a>.\u00a0 If you will be 18 by November 6th, then you can pre-register as well. When you register, you can specify Pirate as your political designation if you wish.<\/p>\n<p>You will need an id issued by the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles.\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t have an id, you can use this website to fill out a form that you can get to your city elections department or town clerk. As long as it is postmarked today or received at their office today it will count.\u00a0 You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sec.state.ma.us\/ele\/eleclk\/clkidx.htm\">call your city or town<\/a> to find out when they close today, but the state elections division says they will be open until 8pm tonight.<\/p>\n<p>If you won&#8217;t be able to vote on election day, you can<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>mail in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sec.state.ma.us\/ele\/elepdf\/2018-Short-Form-Absentee-Ballot-Application.pdf\">request for an absentee ballot<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sec.state.ma.us\/ele\/eleclk\/clkidx.htm\">your city or town<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>vote early between October 22nd and November 2nd.\u00a0 Find your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sec.state.ma.us\/earlyvotingweb\/earlyvotingsearch.aspx\">city or town&#8217;s early voting times<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the last day to register to vote in Massachusetts for the November 6th election.\u00a0 You have until 11:59pm tonight to register&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":3165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[23,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5705","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\/2014\/11\/201406InternetEmergencyRally2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-1u1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5705","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5715,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5705\/revisions\/5715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}