{"id":6470,"date":"2020-05-03T21:31:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T01:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=6470"},"modified":"2020-05-03T21:58:53","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T01:58:53","slug":"pirate-news-ranked-choice-voting-elections-and-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2020\/05\/03\/pirate-news-ranked-choice-voting-elections-and-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate News: Ranked Choice Voting, Elections and COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xaQHjw_eq_4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Massachusetts Pirates Joe, Christine, Malt, Steve and James talk about the latest news of interest to Pirates. The COVID-19 pandemic continues on and has implications for people&#8217;s lives, the economy and our elections. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Steve talks about what Arlington is doing to keep its town government accountable to voters. <\/li><li>Malt talks about efforts to suppress voting. <\/li><li>James gives an update on Voter Choice MA&#8217;s efforts to get on Ranked Choice Voting (RCV), aka Instant Runoff Voting, on the November ballot and how you can help them get the 13,000+ digital signatures they need.  <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfCJbtsUsq7gAE7E2FwRqUg7Bm_ELOaS2O-5cuDDOq6hXMoWg\/viewform\">Sign their voter pledge by Wednesday, May 6th!<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts Pirates Joe, Christine, Malt, Steve and James talk about the latest news of interest to Pirates. The COVID-19 pandemic continues on and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[53,23,32,8,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-reform","category-elections","category-slider","category-organizing","category-podcasts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-1Gm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470","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=6470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6475,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470\/revisions\/6475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}