{"id":5710,"date":"2018-10-19T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=5710"},"modified":"2018-10-17T16:26:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T20:26:11","slug":"vote-early-not-often","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/19\/vote-early-not-often\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote Early! Not Often"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2018 state and federal elections are coming up on November 6th. While there are few choices on the ballot for candidates since roughly 40% of the Massachusetts Legislature has an opponent in the general election and even fewer US House districts, we urge you to vote Yes on ballot measures 1 and 3.<\/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>We are looking for candidates for the 2019 town and city elections. If you are interested in running, <a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/crew\/forms\/support-the-pirate-party\">fill out our supporter\/candidate form<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2018 state and federal elections are coming up on November 6th. While there are few choices on the ballot for candidates since&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":2836,"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-5710","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\/06\/statehouse.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-1u6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5710","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=5710"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5713,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5710\/revisions\/5713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}